--- title: Never approach a strange dog or a wild animal, because even friendly… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics description: Never approach a strange dog or a wild animal, because even friendly-looking ones may bite if scared or protecting food or young; to stroke a dog, ask its owner first and let the dog sniff your hand. Who acts: you, friendly looking ones, dog. 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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 (you, friendly looking ones, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:16 # text = Never approach a strange dog or a wild animal, because even friendly-looking ones may bite if scared or protecting food or young; to stroke a dog, ask its owner first and let the dog sniff your hand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 024-wolves-and-dogs.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 approach approach VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 13 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 amod _ _ 16 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 protecting protect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 stroke stroke VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 32 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:conj 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 . . 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 | **not** **approach** | imperative | you *not said here* | a strange dog or a wild animal | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **bite** | may | friendly looking ones | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **protect** | gerund | friendly looking ones *not said here* | food | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Beneficiary | | 5 | **stroke** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a dog | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | dog's owner | | | | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 7 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sniff** | infinitive | the dog | your hand | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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. 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