--- title: Before stroking a dog, ask the owner, let the dog sniff your closed… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: Before stroking a dog, ask the owner, let the dog sniff your closed hand, and stroke its side or chest rather than reaching over its head. Who acts: you, 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, dog), 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:18 # text = Before stroking a dog, ask the owner, let the dog sniff your closed hand, and stroke its side or chest rather than reaching over its head. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 stroking stroke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 12 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 stroke stroke VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 rather rather ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 26 cc _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 reaching reach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 conj _ _ 27 over over ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stroke** | gerund | you *not said here* | a dog | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the owner | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sniff** | infinitive | the dog | your closed hand | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **close** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **stroke** | infinitive | you *not said here* | hand's side or chest | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer | | 7 | **reach** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | hand's head | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over head=Path | 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:18`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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