--- title: Most dog bites happen with dogs the child already knows, often their… — Reading a dog's body language · tree and pragmatics description: Most dog bites happen with dogs the child already knows, often their own family dog; even a friendly dog may bite when it is scared, hurt or annoyed. Who acts: Most dog bites, child, friendly dog. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most dog bites, child, friendly dog), 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:18 # text = Most dog bites happen with dogs the child already knows, often their own family dog; even a friendly dog may bite when it is scared, hurt or annoyed. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 already already ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 hurt hurt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | Most dog bites | | | | | with dogs | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present | the child | dogs *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | | 3 | **bite** | may | a friendly dog | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | child | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | child *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | child *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:021-reading-a-dog.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Reading a dog's body language, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/17/) - next →: [Reading a dog's body language, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/)