--- title: A dog warns before it bites: it yawns, licks its lips, turns its hea… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog warns before it bites: it yawns, licks its lips, turns its head away, shows the whites of its eyes, tucks its tail, freezes and then growls. Who acts: dog, DNA. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today/15/) [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/) / [Dogs from wolves to best friends: livi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today/) / 15 # Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 15 A dog warns before it bites: it yawns, licks its lips, turns its head away, shows the whites of its eyes, tucks its tail, freezes and then growls. **Who acts:** dog, DNA · **What happens:** warn, bite, yawn, lick, turn away, show · **To what, where:** lips, head, whites, tail This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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 (dog, DNA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:15 # text = A dog warns before it bites: it yawns, licks its lips, turns its head away, shows the whites of its eyes, tucks its tail, freezes and then growls. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 warns warn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 yawns yawn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 licks lick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 whites white NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 tucks tuck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 growls growl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | a dog | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bite** | present | DNA | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **yawn** | present | DNA | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lick** | present | DNA *not said here* | DNA's lips | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | | 5 | **turn away** | present | DNA *not said here* | DNA's head | | | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 6 | **show** | present | DNA *not said here* | the whites of DNA's eyes | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient | | 7 | **tuck** | present | DNA *not said here* | DNA's tail | | | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 8 | **freeze** | present | DNA *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **growl** | present | DNA *not said here* | | | | then | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:15`. **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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