--- title: A clicker makes a short sharp click that marks the exact moment the… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics description: A clicker makes a short sharp click that marks the exact moment the dog did the right thing, and the treat follows; zoos use clicker training so animals calmly join in health checks. Who acts: clicker, short sharp click, dog, treat. 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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 (clicker, short sharp click, dog, treat), 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:6 # text = A clicker makes a short sharp click that marks the exact moment the dog did the right thing, and the treat follows; zoos use clicker training so animals calmly join in health checks. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 clicker clicker NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 click click NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 marks mark VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 27 clicker clicker NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 checks check NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | a clicker | a short sharp click | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset click=Product | | 2 | **mark** | present | a short sharp click | | | | moment | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** | past | the dog | the right thing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 4 | **follow** | present | the treat | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **use** | present | zoos | clicker training | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent training=Patient | | 6 | **join** | present | animals | | | | | in health checks; calmly *property* | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in check=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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