--- title: A growl is a warning that means «stop» before a bite, so trainers sa… — Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or fr… · tree and pragmatics description: A growl is a warning that means «stop» before a bite, so trainers say a dog should never be punished for growling. Who acts: growl, warning, trainers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (growl, warning, trainers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:16 # text = A growl is a warning that means «stop» before a bite, so trainers say a dog should never be punished for growling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 growl growl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 11 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 growling growl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a growl | a warning | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | a warning | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | before a bite | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | trainers | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **punish** | should · passive | | a dog | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **growl** | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:16`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, ene…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/15/) - next →: [Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, ene…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats/)