--- title: A loose, wide wag with a wiggly bottom is usually friendly, but a st… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: A loose, wide wag with a wiggly bottom is usually friendly, but a stiff, high tail that wags fast while the dog stares can mean the dog is tense and ready to act. Who acts: loose wide wag, stiff high tail, dog. 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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 (loose wide wag, stiff high tail, 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:5 # text = A loose, wide wag with a wiggly bottom is usually friendly, but a stiff, high tail that wags fast while the dog stares can mean the dog is tense and ready to act. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 wag wag NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wiggly wiggly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 usually usually ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wags wag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 fast fast ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stares stare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 tense tense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a loose wide wag with a wiggly bottom | | | | | friendly, usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **wag** | present | a stiff high tail | | | | | fast *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stare** | present | the dog | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | can | a stiff high tail | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the dog | | | | | tense *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | the dog *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **act** | to-infinitive | the dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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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