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title: Many dogs nibble grass and it is usually normal; scientists are not… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many dogs nibble grass and it is usually normal; scientists are not fully sure why, and wolves eat some plants too. Who acts: Many dogs, grass, scientists, wolves. 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
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# How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 19

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Many dogs nibble grass and it is usually normal; scientists are not fully sure why, and wolves eat some plants too.

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**Who acts:** Many dogs, grass, scientists, wolves · **What happens:** nibble, be, not be, eat · **To what, where:** grass, plants

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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 (Many dogs, grass, scientists, wolves), 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:19
# text = Many dogs nibble grass and it is usually normal; scientists are not fully sure why, and wolves eat some plants too.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	nibble	nibble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **nibble** | present | Many dogs | grass |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | grass |  |  |  |  | normal, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | scientists |  |  |  |  | fully, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | present | wolves | some plants |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:19`.

**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. **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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