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title: Dog bites send thousands of children to hospital every year, and chi… — Reading a dog's body language · tree and pragmatics
description: Dog bites send thousands of children to hospital every year, and children are often bitten on the face. Who acts: Dog bites. 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 19

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Dog bites send thousands of children to hospital every year, and children are often bitten on the face.

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**Who acts:** Dog bites · **What happens:** send, bite · **To what, where:** thousands, hospital, children, face

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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 (Dog bites), 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:19
# text = Dog bites send thousands of children to hospital every year, and children are often bitten on the face.
# 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): no change
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | Dog bites | thousands of children |  | hospital | year |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme to hospital=Destination |
| 2 | **bite** | present · passive |  | children |  | the face |  | often *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient on face=Location |

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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:19`.

**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): no change. **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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