--- title: Watch two dogs in the park: one drops its front legs to the grass wi… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch two dogs in the park: one drops its front legs to the grass with its bottom in the air, and the other bounces off after it. Who acts: you, one, other. A sentence of the lesson «Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe/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/) / [Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe/) / 1 # Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 1 Watch two dogs in the park: one drops its front legs to the grass with its bottom in the air, and the other bounces off after it. **Who acts:** you, one, other · **What happens:** watch, drop, bounce off · **To what, where:** two dogs, park, front legs, grass This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe» 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 (you, one, other), 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:1 # text = Watch two dogs in the park: one drops its front legs to the grass with its bottom in the air, and the other bounces off after it. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ _ 9 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 nsubj _ _ 26 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 28 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nmod 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | two dogs | | the park | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 2 | **drop** | present | one | park's front legs | | the grass | | with grass's bottom in the air | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme to grass=Destination | | 3 | **bounce off** | present | the other | | | | after air | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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