--- title: A tail tucked between the legs means the dog is scared, and a fright… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: A tail tucked between the legs means the dog is scared, and a frightened dog that is cornered may bite, so it needs space. Who acts: tail, dog, frightened 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 (tail, dog, frightened 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:8 # text = A tail tucked between the legs means the dog is scared, and a frightened dog that is cornered may bite, so it needs 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 tucked tuck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 cornered corner VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **tuck** | participle | | a tail *not said here* | | the legs | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between leg=Destination | | 2 | **mean** | present | a tail | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the dog | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **corner** | present · passive | | a frightened dog | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bite** | may | a frightened dog | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **need** | present | vet | space | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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:8`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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