--- title: A girl in Texas tried to hug a neighbour's dog while it was eating;… — Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Texas tried to hug a neighbour's dog while it was eating; it bit her face, and she needed stitches. Who acts: girl, 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 (girl, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.lesson:15 # text = A girl in Texas tried to hug a neighbour's dog while it was eating; it bit her face, and she needed stitches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hug hug VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | a girl in Texas | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **hug** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a girl in Texas *not said here* | a neighbour's dog | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent | | 3 | **eat** | past · progressive | dog | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bite** | past | dog | girl's face | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 5 | **need** | past | girl | stitches | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme | 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:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.lesson:15`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Saving energy, pets at home and the ba…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/118-energy-pets-and-bathroom/14/) - next →: [Saving energy, pets at home and the ba…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/118-energy-pets-and-bathroom/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/118-energy-pets-and-bathroom/)