--- title: A wagging tail is not always friendly; you have to read the whole do… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: A wagging tail is not always friendly; you have to read the whole dog, not one part, and if a dog is telling you it is uneasy, the kind and safe thing is to give it space. Who acts: wagging tail, you, dog, part. 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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 (wagging tail, you, dog, part), 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:4 # text = A wagging tail is not always friendly; you have to read the whole dog, not one part, and if a dog is telling you it is uneasy, the kind and safe thing is to give it space. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wagging wag VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 7 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:parataxis 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 uneasy uneasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 iobj _ _ 41 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wag** | gerund | | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | a wagging tail | | | | | always, friendly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **read** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the whole dog and one part | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | a dog | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | present | part | | | | | uneasy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **give** | present | kind safe thing | space | part | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient space=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:4`. **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 ×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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