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title: Leave a dog alone while it eats, because even a friendly dog may bit… — Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom · tree and pragmatics
description: Leave a dog alone while it eats, because even a friendly dog may bite to guard its food. Who acts: you, dog, friendly dog. A sentence of the lesson «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom, sentence 18

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Leave a dog alone while it eats, because even a friendly dog may bite to guard its food.

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**Who acts:** you, dog, friendly dog · **What happens:** leave, eat, bite, guard · **To what, where:** dog, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saving energy, pets at home and the bathroom» of the everyday 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 (you, dog, friendly 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:18
# text = Leave a dog alone while it eats, because even a friendly dog may bite to guard its food.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | a dog |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bite** | may | a friendly dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **guard** | to-infinitive | a friendly dog *not said here* | dog's food |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Beneficiary |

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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:everyday:118-energy-pets-and-bathroom.lesson:18`.

**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): 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/).

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