--- title: Most dog bites happen with dogs people know, often when the dog is e… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics description: Most dog bites happen with dogs people know, often when the dog is eating, sleeping or hurt; growling, a stiff body and showing teeth are warnings that mean back off. Who acts: Most dog bites, people, dog, growling. 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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 (Most dog bites, people, dog, growling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:12 # text = Most dog bites happen with dogs people know, often when the dog is eating, sleeping or hurt; growling, a stiff body and showing teeth are warnings that mean back off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.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 ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 growling growl VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 28 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 off off ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | Most dog bites | | | | | with dogs | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present | people | dogs *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | | 3 | **eat** | present · progressive | the dog | | | | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sleep** | gerund | the dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hurt** | participle | the dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **growl** | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **show** | gerund | | teeth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | | 8 | **is a** | present | growling | warnings | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **mean** | present | warnings | | | | | off *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:12`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoe…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/11/) - next →: [Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoe…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/)