--- title: A dog that yawns, licks its lips or looks away when the vet comes cl… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog that yawns, licks its lips or looks away when the vet comes close is usually not tired but uneasy; these are called calming signals. Who acts: dog, vet. 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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 (dog, vet), 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:7 # text = A dog that yawns, licks its lips or looks away when the vet comes close is usually not tired but uneasy; these are called calming signals. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 yawns yawn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 licks lick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 usually usually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 uneasy uneasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 27 calming calming ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **yawn** | present | a dog | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lick** | present | a dog *not said here* | bow's lips | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | | 3 | **look away** | present | a dog *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | present | the vet | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | a dog | | | | | tired, usually *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | a dog *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **call** | present · passive | | these | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:7`. **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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