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title: Modern trainers use rewards, short clear words that the whole family… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics
description: Modern trainers use rewards, short clear words that the whole family shares, and lots of patience, because fear and smacking make a dog anxious, not good. Who acts: Modern trainers, whole family, fear. A sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the biology course of Mova'
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# Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 4

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Modern trainers use rewards, short clear words that the whole family shares, and lots of patience, because fear and smacking make a dog anxious, not good.

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**Who acts:** Modern trainers, whole family, fear · **What happens:** use, share, make · **To what, where:** rewards, short clear words, dog

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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 (Modern trainers, whole family, fear), 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:4
# text = Modern trainers use rewards, short clear words that the whole family shares, and lots of patience, because fear and smacking make a dog anxious, not good.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	smacking	smack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
24	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Modern trainers | rewards and short clear words and lots of patience |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Patient |
| 2 | **share** | present | the whole family | short clear words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | fear and smacking | a dog |  |  |  | anxious *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dog=Product |

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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:4`.

**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, 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.

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

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