--- title: Always ask the owner before stroking a dog, let it sniff your hand,… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: Always ask the owner before stroking a dog, let it sniff your hand, and stroke its side or chest rather than reaching over its head, because a hand coming down over its head can feel like a threat. Who acts: you, owner, hand. 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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 (you, owner, hand), 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:13 # text = Always ask the owner before stroking a dog, let it sniff your hand, and stroke its side or chest rather than reaching over its head, because a hand coming down over its head can feel like a threat. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 2 advmod _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 stroking stroke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stroke stroke VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 24 cc _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 25 over over 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 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 33 down down ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 over over ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 feel feel VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 39 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the owner | | | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 2 | **stroke** | gerund | you *not said here* | a dog | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | owner | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sniff** | infinitive | owner *not said here* | your hand | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **stroke** | infinitive | | hand's side or chest | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer | | 6 | **reach** | gerund | | | | hand's head | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over head=Path | | 7 | **come down** | gerund | a hand | | | hand's head | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **feel** | can | | | | | | like a threat | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like threat=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:13`. **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): 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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