--- title: A puppy has a tiny bladder, so taking it outside after waking, eatin… — A puppy at home: the first weeks · tree and pragmatics description: A puppy has a tiny bladder, so taking it outside after waking, eating and playing, and praising it there, teaches it quickly; telling it off for accidents makes it hide to wee. Who acts: puppy, telling, bladder. 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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 (puppy, telling, bladder), 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:9 # text = A puppy has a tiny bladder, so taking it outside after waking, eating and playing, and praising it there, teaches it quickly; telling it off for accidents makes it hide to wee. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bladder bladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 outside outside ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 after after SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 waking wake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 praising praise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 csubj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:iobj 30 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 37 wee wee VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:xcomp 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a puppy | a tiny bladder | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient | | 2 | **take** | gerund | a puppy *not said here* | bladder | | | | outside *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **wake** | gerund | a puppy *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | a puppy *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **play** | gerund | a puppy *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **praise** | gerund | a puppy *not said here* | bladder | | there | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | | | bladder | | | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 8 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | bladder | | | for accidents | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 9 | **make** | present | telling | bladder | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **hide** | infinitive | bladder *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **wee** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks.lesson:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [A puppy at home: the first weeks, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/8/) - next →: [A puppy at home: the first weeks, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/326-a-puppy-at-home-the-first-weeks/)