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title: If a dog comes close, stand still like a tree: arms in, hands togeth… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a dog comes close, stand still like a tree: arms in, hands together, look away and do not run. Who acts: dog, you. 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 p
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# Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 2

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If a dog comes close, stand still like a tree: arms in, hands together, look away and do not run.

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**Who acts:** dog, you · **What happens:** come, stand, look away, not run · **To what, where:** arms

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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 (dog, you), 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:2
# text = If a dog comes close, stand still like a tree: arms in, hands together, look away and do not run.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl
5	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
22	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a dog | arms in hands |  |  |  | close, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still | like a tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **run** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:2`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. **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/).

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