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title: A relaxed, friendly dog has a loose, wiggly body, a soft open mouth… — Reading a dog's body language · tree and pragmatics
description: A relaxed, friendly dog has a loose, wiggly body, a soft open mouth and a tail that wags in wide, easy sweeps. Who acts: relaxed friendly dog, tail. A sentence of the lesson «Reading a dog's body language» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Reading a dog's body language, sentence 1

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A relaxed, friendly dog has a loose, wiggly body, a soft open mouth and a tail that wags in wide, easy sweeps.

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**Who acts:** relaxed friendly dog, tail · **What happens:** have, wag · **To what, where:** loose wiggly body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a dog's body language» 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 (relaxed friendly dog, tail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:021-reading-a-dog.lesson:1
# text = A relaxed, friendly dog has a loose, wiggly body, a soft open mouth and a tail that wags in wide, easy sweeps.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 021-reading-a-dog.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	wiggly	wiggly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wags	wag	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sweeps	sweep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a relaxed friendly dog | a loose wiggly body and a soft open mouth and a tail |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **wag** | present | a tail |  |  |  |  | in wide easy sweeps | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sweep=Topic |

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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:021-reading-a-dog.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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