--- title: Scientists found that dogs make the same guilty look whether or not… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists found that dogs make the same guilty look whether or not they did anything, if the owner is cross; the look is a way to calm an upset person. Who acts: Scientists, dogs, owner, look. 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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 (Scientists, dogs, owner, look), 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:17 # text = Scientists found that dogs make the same guilty look whether or not they did anything, if the owner is cross; the look is a way to calm an upset person. # 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 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 whether whether SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 14 mark _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 cross cross ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **find** | past | Scientists | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | dogs | the same guilty look | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Product | | 3 | **not** **do** | past | Scientists *= scientist* | anything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the owner | | | | | cross *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | the look | a way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **calm** | to-infinitive | Scientists *not said here* | a upset person | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer | 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:17`. **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. 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