--- title: For example, a dog lying under a table with its ears back, licking i… — Reading a dog's body language · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a dog lying under a table with its ears back, licking its lips and showing the whites of its eyes is telling you: «Leave me alone.» Who acts: 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 (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:5 # text = For example, a dog lying under a table with its ears back, licking its lips and showing the whites of its eyes is telling you: «Leave me alone.» # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 6 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 7 under under ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 licking lick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 whites white NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 alone alone ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | a dog *not said here* | | | a table with table's ears | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location | | 2 | **lick** | gerund | a dog *not said here* | table's lips | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | | 3 | **show** | gerund | a dog *not said here* | the whites of lip's eyes | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | a dog | | you | | | for example | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a dog *= dog* | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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:5`. **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): R7-rel-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/3/) - next →: [Reading a dog's body language, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/)