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title: A puppy jumps up at visitors because jumping got attention before, a… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics
description: A puppy jumps up at visitors because jumping got attention before, and even shouting can be a reward, because it is still attention; turning away and rewarding four paws on the floor works better. Who acts: puppy, turning. A sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» of the bi
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# Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 7

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A puppy jumps up at visitors because jumping got attention before, and even shouting can be a reward, because it is still attention; turning away and rewarding four paws on the floor works better.

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**Who acts:** puppy, turning · **What happens:** jump up, jump, get, shout, be, turn away · **To what, where:** attention, reward, four paws, floor

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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 (puppy, turning), 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:7
# text = A puppy jumps up at visitors because jumping got attention before, and even shouting can be a reward, because it is still attention; turning away and rewarding four paws on the floor works better.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	rewarding	reward	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
31	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
37	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | present | a puppy |  |  |  |  | at visitors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at visitor=Trajectory |
| 2 | **jump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past |  | attention |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | can |  | a reward |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | puppy | attention |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **turn away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **reward** | gerund |  | four paws |  | the floor |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent paw=Recipient |
| 9 | **work** | present | turning |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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