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title: When a dog and its owner look at each other, both get a rush of a bo… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics
description: When a dog and its owner look at each other, both get a rush of a bonding chemical in the brain. Who acts: dog, both. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 18

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When a dog and its owner look at each other, both get a rush of a bonding chemical in the brain.

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**Who acts:** dog, both · **What happens:** look, get, bond, rush · **To what, where:** rush, bonding chemical

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:18
# text = When a dog and its owner look at each other, both get a rush of a bonding chemical in the brain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	7	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:_
13	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod
18	bonding	bond	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	amod	_	_
19	chemical	chemical	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a dog and car's owner |  |  |  |  | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | both | a rush of a bonding chemical |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rush=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bond** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **rush** |  |  | a bonding chemical |  |  |  |  | nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:18`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/).

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