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title: Running away from a dog can make it chase; standing still with arms… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics
description: Running away from a dog can make it chase; standing still with arms in and looking away is safer. Who acts: Running, dog, standing. 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 
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# Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 10

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Running away from a dog can make it chase; standing still with arms in and looking away is safer.

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**Who acts:** Running, dog, standing · **What happens:** run away, make, chase, stand, look away, be · **To what, where:** dog

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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 (Running, dog, standing), 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:10
# text = Running away from a dog can make it chase; standing still with arms in and looking away is safer.
# 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): no change
1	Running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from a dog; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from dog=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | can | Running | dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | infinitive | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still | with arms | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | present | standing |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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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