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title: On a walk your dog stops at a lamp post and sniffs for ages while yo… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics
description: On a walk your dog stops at a lamp post and sniffs for ages while you tug the lead. Who acts: dog, you. A sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 0

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On a walk your dog stops at a lamp post and sniffs for ages while you tug the lead.

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**Who acts:** dog, you · **What happens:** stop, sniff, tug · **To what, where:** walk, lamp post, lead

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:0
# text = On a walk your dog stops at a lamp post and sniffs for ages while you tug the lead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.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): R5-strong ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sniffs	sniff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tug	tug	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | your dog | a walk |  | a lamp post |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at post=Location |
| 2 | **sniff** | present | your dog *not said here* |  |  |  | for ages |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tug** | present | you | the lead |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lead=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:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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