--- title: A frightened or angry dog goes stiff and still: its tail may be tuck… — Reading a dog's body language · tree and pragmatics description: A frightened or angry dog goes stiff and still: its tail may be tucked low or held high and rigid, its ears flat back or stiffly forward, and it may show the whites of its eyes, curl its lip or growl. Who acts: frightened dog, mouth. 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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 (frightened dog, mouth), 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:2 # text = A frightened or angry dog goes stiff and still: its tail may be tucked low or held high and rigid, its ears flat back or stiffly forward, and it may show the whites of its eyes, curl its lip or growl. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 still still ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 tucked tuck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 low low ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 19 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 rigid rigid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj 25 flat flat ADV RB _ 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 stiffly stiffly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 forward forward ADV RB _ 26 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 whites white NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 curl curl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 42 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 growl growl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | a frightened dog | | | | | stiff *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tuck** | may · passive | | mouth's tail | | | | low *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | participle | | | | | | high *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** | may | mouth | the whites of mouth's eyes | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient | | 5 | **curl** | infinitive | mouth *not said here* | mouth's lip | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | | 6 | **growl** | infinitive | mouth *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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 ×3, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/1/) - next →: [Reading a dog's body language, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/)