--- title: A dog cannot say «I'm scared» or «let's play», but it says both all… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog cannot say «I'm scared» or «let's play», but it says both all day long with its tail, ears, eyes, mouth and whole body. Who acts: dog, 's. 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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 (dog, 's), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe.lesson:0 # text = A dog cannot say «I'm scared» or «let's play», but it says both all day long with its tail, ears, eyes, mouth and whole body. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 's us PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 21 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 20 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked 24 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | can | a dog | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a dog *= dog* | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | dog | both | | | | with dog's tail and ears and eyes and mouth and whole body; long *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent both=Theme with tail=Manner | 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:194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/19/) - next →: [Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growl…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe/)