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title: A loose, wiggly body and a soft, open mouth usually mean a relaxed,… — Reading a dog's body language · tree and pragmatics
description: A loose, wiggly body and a soft, open mouth usually mean a relaxed, friendly dog. Who acts: loose wiggly body. 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 9

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A loose, wiggly body and a soft, open mouth usually mean a relaxed, friendly dog.

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**Who acts:** loose wiggly body · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** relaxed friendly dog

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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 (loose wiggly body), 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:9
# text = A loose, wiggly body and a soft, open mouth usually mean a relaxed, friendly 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wiggly	wiggly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a loose wiggly body and a soft open mouth | a relaxed friendly dog |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |

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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:9`.

**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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