--- title: Dogs tend to wag more to the right when happy and more to the left w… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs tend to wag more to the right when happy and more to the left when worried, and a stiff, high, fast wag can mean tension. Who acts: Dogs, stiff high fast wag. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» of the biology course o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/) / 13 # Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 13 Dogs tend to wag more to the right when happy and more to the left when worried, and a stiff, high, fast wag can mean tension. **Who acts:** Dogs, stiff high fast wag · **What happens:** tend, wag, mean · **To what, where:** right, tension This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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 (Dogs, stiff high fast wag), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:13 # text = Dogs tend to wag more to the right when happy and more to the left when worried, and a stiff, high, fast wag can mean tension. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tend tend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 wag wag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 10 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 17 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 21 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 wag wag NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 29 tension tension NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tend** | present | Dogs | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wag** | to-infinitive | Dogs *not said here* | | the right | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to right=Recipient | | 3 | **mean** | can | a stiff high fast wag | tension | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tension=Topic | 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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:13`. **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): 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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