--- title: A dog pulls on the lead because pulling got it where it wanted to go… — Training a dog with rewards and patience · tree and pragmatics description: A dog pulls on the lead because pulling got it where it wanted to go; it also walks faster than us, so walking nicely beside a person takes practice and rewards. Who acts: dog, pulling, walking. 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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, pulling, walking), 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:8 # text = A dog pulls on the lead because pulling got it where it wanted to go; it also walks faster than us, so walking nicely beside a person takes practice and rewards. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 pulling pulling NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 also also ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 25 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj 26 nicely nicely ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 beside beside ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 31 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 rewards reward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull** | present | a dog | | | | | on the lead | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on lead=Theme | | 2 | **get** | past | pulling | dog | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **want** | past | dog | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **walk** | present | dog | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **walk** | gerund | | | | | | beside a person; nicely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside person=Trajectory | | 7 | **take** | present | walking | practice and rewards | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent practice=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:8`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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