--- title: The same body can also say «stop»: a tucked tail, a yawn, the whites… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: The same body can also say «stop»: a tucked tail, a yawn, the whites of the eyes showing, a stiff body or a growl are polite warnings that come before any bite. Who acts: same body, eyes, whites, polite warnings. 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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 (same body, eyes, whites, polite warnings), 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:3 # text = The same body can also say «stop»: a tucked tail, a yawn, the whites of the eyes showing, a stiff body or a growl are polite warnings that come before any bite. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tucked tuck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 yawn yawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 whites white NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 growl growl NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 before before ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | the same body | stop | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stop=Topic | | 2 | **tuck** | participle | | | | | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **show** | gerund | the eyes *not said here* | a stiff body or a growl | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | the whites of the eyes | polite warnings | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | present | polite warnings | | | any bite | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before bite=Location | 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:3`. **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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