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title: Training with shouting, smacking or fear can make dogs scared or agg… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics
description: Training with shouting, smacking or fear can make dogs scared or aggressive, so modern trainers use rewards because they work better and are kind. Who acts: Training, modern trainers, trainers. A sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the biology course of Mova's primar
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# Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 13

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Training with shouting, smacking or fear can make dogs scared or aggressive, so modern trainers use rewards because they work better and are kind.

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**Who acts:** Training, modern trainers, trainers · **What happens:** make, use, work, be · **To what, where:** dogs, rewards

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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 (Training, modern trainers, trainers), 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:13
# text = Training with shouting, smacking or fear can make dogs scared or aggressive, so modern trainers use rewards because they work better and are kind.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shouting	shouting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	smacking	smack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	aggressive	aggressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **make** | can | Training with shouting and smacking or fear | dogs |  |  |  | scared *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dog=Product |
| 2 | **use** | present | modern trainers | rewards |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient |
| 3 | **work** | present | trainers *= trainer* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | trainers *= trainer* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |

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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:13`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

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

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