--- title: The play bow, front legs down and bottom up, is an invitation to pla… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: The play bow, front legs down and bottom up, is an invitation to play, and dogs also use it to say «still a game» after a rough moment. Who acts: play bow, dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 6 The play bow, front legs down and bottom up, is an invitation to play, and dogs also use it to say «still a game» after a rough moment. **Who acts:** play bow, dogs · **What happens:** bottom up, be, play, use, say · **To what, where:** invitation, bow, game · **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 (play bow, dogs), 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:6 # text = The play bow, front legs down and bottom up, is an invitation to play, and dogs also use it to say «still a game» after a rough moment. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 bottom bottom VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 invitation invitation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 also also ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 after after ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bottom up** | infinitive | the play bow *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the play bow | a invitation | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **use** | present | dogs | bow | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | dogs *not said here* | a game | | | moment | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=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:6`. **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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