--- title: If a dog growls at you, stand still like a tree, do not stare into i… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics description: If a dog growls at you, stand still like a tree, do not stare into its eyes, and back away slowly once it calms. Who acts: dog, you, tree. 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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Sounds that warn, sentence 14 If a dog growls at you, stand still like a tree, do not stare into its eyes, and back away slowly once it calms. **Who acts:** dog, you, tree · **What happens:** growl, stand, not stare, calm 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, you, tree), 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:14 # text = If a dog growls at you, stand still like a tree, do not stare into its eyes, and back away slowly once it calms. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 growls growl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 14 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 stare stare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 back back ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 24 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 25 once once SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 calms calm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a dog | | | | | at you | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at you=Stimulus | | 2 | **stand** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | still | like a tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **stare** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | into tree's eyes; away, slowly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | | 4 | **calm** | present | tree | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: 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:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:14`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/13/) - next →: [Sounds that warn, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/12-sounds-that-warn/)