--- title: For the dog this is reading the news: who passed by, how long ago, a… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: For the dog this is reading the news: who passed by, how long ago, and whether it was a male or a female. Who acts: this, news, dog. 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 pragma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/) / 1 # How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 1 For the dog this is reading the news: who passed by, how long ago, and whether it was a male or a female. **Who acts:** this, news, dog · **What happens:** read, pass by, be · **To what, where:** news, male 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 (this, news, dog), 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:1 # text = For the dog this is reading the news: who passed by, how long ago, and whether it was a male or a female. # 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): no change 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 by by ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present · progressive | this | the news | | | | for the dog | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | | 2 | **pass by** | participle | the news | | | | | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | dog | a male or a female | | | | | tree rules | 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:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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: [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/0/) - next →: [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/)