--- title: Any dog can bite if it is scared, hurt, or guarding its food or pupp… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics description: Any dog can bite if it is scared, hurt, or guarding its food or puppies, however friendly it looked a moment before. Who acts: dog. 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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 (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:9 # text = Any dog can bite if it is scared, hurt, or guarding its food or puppies, however friendly it looked a moment before. # 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 ×1 1 Any any DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 guarding guard VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 however however ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 before before ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **bite** | can | any dog | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | dog | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | participle | dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **guard** | gerund | dog *not said here* | dog's food or puppies | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Beneficiary | | 5 | **look** | past | dog | | | | | before *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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: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): 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. 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