--- title: In its first few months a puppy should meet many people, animals, so… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics description: In its first few months a puppy should meet many people, animals, sounds and things in a calm way; this is called socialisation, and a dog that met few things when young may be fearful later. Who acts: puppy, dog. 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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 (puppy, 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:12 # text = In its first few months a puppy should meet many people, animals, sounds and things in a calm way; this is called socialisation, and a dog that met few things when young may be fearful later. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 4 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ _ 26 socialisation socialisation NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 36 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 37 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 39 fearful fearful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 advcl _ _ 40 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** | should | a puppy | many people and animals and sounds and things | | a calm way | month | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **meet** | past | a dog | few things | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-Agent | | 4 | **is** | may | a puppy *not said here* | | | | | fearful, late *property* | tree rules | 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:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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