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title: Showing the whites of the eyes, lip licking and yawning when not tir… — Reading a dog's body language · tree and pragmatics
description: Showing the whites of the eyes, lip licking and yawning when not tired are signs of a worried dog. Who acts: Showing. 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 every clause.
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# Reading a dog's body language, sentence 14

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Showing the whites of the eyes, lip licking and yawning when not tired are signs of a worried dog.

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**Who acts:** Showing · **What happens:** show, yawn, be · **To what, where:** whites, signs

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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 (Showing), 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:14
# text = Showing the whites of the eyes, lip licking and yawning when not tired are signs of a worried dog.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	licking	licking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	yawning	yawn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **show** | gerund |  | the whites of the eyes and lip licking |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient |
| 2 | **yawn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Showing | signs |  |  |  | of a worried dog | tree rules |

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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: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 ×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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