--- title: If a strange dog comes running at you, do not run or scream, because… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: If a strange dog comes running at you, do not run or scream, because running makes you look like prey. Who acts: strange dog, you. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 6 If a strange dog comes running at you, do not run or scream, because running makes you look like prey. **Who acts:** strange dog, you · **What happens:** come, run, not run, scream, make, look · **To what, where:** you 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 (strange dog, you), 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:6 # text = If a strange dog comes running at you, do not run or scream, because running makes you look like prey. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 6 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 scream scream VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 nsubj _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a strange dog | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run** | gerund | a strange dog *not said here* | | | | | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | | 3 | **not** **run** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **scream** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | like prey | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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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