--- title: A dog does not understand sentences the way we do, so everyone in th… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics description: A dog does not understand sentences the way we do, so everyone in the family should use the same short word for each command, or the dog gets confused. Who acts: dog, we, everyone. 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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 (dog, we, everyone), 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:15 # text = A dog does not understand sentences the way we do, so everyone in the family should use the same short word for each command, or the dog gets confused. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 13 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 18 nsubj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 31 confused confused ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:xcomp 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | a dog | sentences | | | | the way *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** | present | we | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | | 3 | **use** | should | everyone | the same short word | | | | for each command | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent word=Theme for command=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** | present | the dog | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:15`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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