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title: If sitting brings a treat, the dog sits more; if jumping up brings a… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics
description: If sitting brings a treat, the dog sits more; if jumping up brings attention, it jumps more. Who acts: dog. A sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 1

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If sitting brings a treat, the dog sits more; if jumping up brings attention, it jumps more.

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** sit, bring, jump up, jump · **To what, where:** treat, attention

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» 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 (dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience.lesson:1
# text = If sitting brings a treat, the dog sits more; if jumping up brings attention, it jumps more.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	nsubj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
16	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen* | present |  | a treat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent treat=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | present | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **jump up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen* | present |  | attention |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent attention=Theme |
| 6 | **jump** | present | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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