--- title: A growl is a warning, not bad behaviour; a dog punished for growling… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: A growl is a warning, not bad behaviour; a dog punished for growling may learn to skip the warning and bite without one. Who acts: growl, dog. 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 dependency tree a --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 11 A growl is a warning, not bad behaviour; a dog punished for growling may learn to skip the warning and bite without one. **Who acts:** growl, dog · **What happens:** be, punish, growl, learn, skip, bite · **To what, where:** warning, dog 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 (growl, dog), 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:11 # text = A growl is a warning, not bad behaviour; a dog punished for growling may learn to skip the warning and bite without one. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 growl growl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 behaviour behaviour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 13 punished punish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 growling growl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 obl _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 skip skip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 24 without without ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a growl | a warning and bad behaviour | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **punish** | participle | | a dog *not said here* | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **growl** | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **learn** | may | a dog | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **skip** | to-infinitive | a dog *not said here* | the warning | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warning=Agent | | 6 | **bite** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | | | | | without one | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:11`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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