--- title: Saying the puppy's name and rewarding a look with a tiny treat teach… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics description: Saying the puppy's name and rewarding a look with a tiny treat teaches the name, and short games of a few minutes work better than long lessons. Who acts: Saying, short games, puppy. A sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/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/) / [A puppy at home: the first weeks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/) / 15 # A puppy at home: the first weeks, sentence 15 Saying the puppy's name and rewarding a look with a tiny treat teaches the name, and short games of a few minutes work better than long lessons. **Who acts:** Saying, short games, puppy · **What happens:** say, reward, teach, work, name · **To what, where:** name, look · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «A puppy at home: the first weeks» 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 (Saying, short games, puppy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:15 # text = Saying the puppy's name and rewarding a look with a tiny treat teaches the name, and short games of a few minutes work better than long lessons. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 rewarding reward VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | the puppy's name | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 2 | **reward** | gerund | | a look | | | | with a tiny treat | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent look=Recipient with treat=Theme | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Saying | the name | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 4 | **work** | present | short games of a few minutes | | | | | than long lessons; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **name** | | the puppy | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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. 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