--- title: On the way home from school a scruffy street dog starts trotting beh… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics description: On the way home from school a scruffy street dog starts trotting behind you. Who acts: scruffy street dog. A sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/0/) [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/) / [Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/) / 0 # Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 0 On the way home from school a scruffy street dog starts trotting behind you. **Who acts:** scruffy street dog · **What happens:** start, trot · **To what, where:** way This is a sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 (scruffy street dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:0 # text = On the way home from school a scruffy street dog starts trotting behind you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.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 ×3 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 scruffy scruffy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod 9 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 trotting trot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 xcomp _ _ 13 behind behind ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | a scruffy street dog | | | the way | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **trot** | gerund | a scruffy street dog *not said here* | | | | | behind you | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind you=Trajectory | 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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:0`. **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 ×3. **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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