--- title: When a hugged dog shows the whites of its eyes, often called whale e… — Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and stay… · tree and pragmatics description: When a hugged dog shows the whites of its eyes, often called whale eye, it is uncomfortable; most dogs do not like hugs, and many bites to children come from dogs they know at home. Who acts: hugged dog, vet, most dogs, many bites. 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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 (hugged dog, vet, most dogs, many bites), 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:9 # text = When a hugged dog shows the whites of its eyes, often called whale eye, it is uncomfortable; most dogs do not like hugs, and many bites to children come from dogs they know at home. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 hugged hug VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 whites white NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 14 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 uncomfortable uncomfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 22 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 26 hugs hug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 19 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 | **hug** | participle | | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **show** | present | a hugged dog | the whites of vet's eyes | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient | | 3 | **call** | participle | a hugged dog *not said here* | whale eye | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | vet | | | | | uncomfortable *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | most dogs | hugs | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hug=Theme | | 6 | **come** | present | many bites to children | | | | | from dogs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from dog=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **know** | present | hugs *= hug* | dogs *not said here* | | home | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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, 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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