--- title: Fur standing up along a dog's back is called raised hackles; it show… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: Fur standing up along a dog's back is called raised hackles; it shows the dog is very worked up, which can be fear, anger or just big excitement. Who acts: Fur, 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 wit --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 15 Fur standing up along a dog's back is called raised hackles; it shows the dog is very worked up, which can be fear, anger or just big excitement. **Who acts:** Fur, dog · **What happens:** stand up, call, raise, show, work up, be · **To what, where:** back, Fur, dog, fear · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Fur, 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:15 # text = Fur standing up along a dog's back is called raised hackles; it shows the dog is very worked up, which can be fear, anger or just big excitement. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 3 up up ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 along along ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 hackles hackles NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 26 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | gerund | Fur *not said here* | | | a dog's back | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along back=Location | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Fur | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **show** | present | Fur | | the dog | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient | | 5 | **work up** | present · passive | | the dog *not said here* | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V» | | 6 | **is a** | can | the dog | fear and anger or big excitement | | | | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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