--- title: Dogs sniff each other's bottoms to say hello, because special scent… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs sniff each other's bottoms to say hello, because special scent glands there tell who the other dog is, a bit like reading an identity card. Who acts: Dogs, special scent glands, bit. 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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 (Dogs, special scent glands, bit), 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:14 # text = Dogs sniff each other's bottoms to say hello, because special scent glands there tell who the other dog is, a bit like reading an identity card. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sniff sniff VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 bottoms bottom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 9 hello hello INTJ UH _ 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 13 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 16 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 25 like like SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 identity identity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sniff** | present | Dogs | each other bottoms | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Dogs *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | special scent glands | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a bit | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **read** | gerund | a bit *not said here* | a identity card | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Topic | 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:14`. **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, R8-pos-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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