--- title: A dog that growls, shows its teeth or goes stiff is warning you to s… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics description: A dog that growls, shows its teeth or goes stiff is warning you to stay away. Who acts: dog. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Sounds that warn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/) / 13 # Sounds that warn, sentence 13 A dog that growls, shows its teeth or goes stiff is warning you to stay away. **Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** growl, show, go, warn, stay away · **To what, where:** teeth, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» 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 (dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:13 # text = A dog that growls, shows its teeth or goes stiff is warning you to stay away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 012-sounds-that-warn.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 growls growl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 warning warn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **growl** | present | a dog | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **show** | present | a dog *not said here* | dog's teeth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | | 3 | **go** | present | a dog *not said here* | | | | | stiff *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present · progressive | a dog | | you | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **stay away** | to-infinitive | a dog *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:13`. **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/). - ← previous: [Sounds that warn, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/12/) - next →: [Sounds that warn, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/)