--- title: In tests, dogs pushed and snapped at a toy dog their owner petted, b… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: In tests, dogs pushed and snapped at a toy dog their owner petted, but not at a bucket, which suggests a simple kind of jealousy. Who acts: dogs, owner, bucket. 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 M --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 16 In tests, dogs pushed and snapped at a toy dog their owner petted, but not at a bucket, which suggests a simple kind of jealousy. **Who acts:** dogs, owner, bucket · **What happens:** push, snap, pet, suggest · **To what, where:** tests, toy dog, simple kind 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, owner, bucket), 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:16 # text = In tests, dogs pushed and snapped at a toy dog their owner petted, but not at a bucket, which suggests a simple kind of jealousy. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 snapped snap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 petted pet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 jealousy jealousy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | past | dogs | | | tests | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in test=Trajectory | | 2 | **snap** | past | dogs *not said here* | | | | | at a toy dog | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dog=Location | | 3 | **pet** | past | Dogs's owner | a toy dog *not said here* | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent | | 4 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | a bucket | a simple kind of jealousy | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kind=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:16`. **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. **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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