--- title: Before you touch any dog, even a friendly-looking one, ask the owner… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics description: Before you touch any dog, even a friendly-looking one, ask the owner «May I pat your dog?» and wait for a yes; if there is no owner, do not touch it. Who acts: you, I, owner. 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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 (you, I, owner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:022-meeting-a-dog-safely.lesson:0 # text = Before you touch any dog, even a friendly-looking one, ask the owner «May I pat your dog?» and wait for a yes; if there is no owner, do not touch it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 022-meeting-a-dog-safely.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 Before before SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 root _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 « « PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 May may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pat pat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 24 » » PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 29 yes yes NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | present | you | any dog | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the owner | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **pat** *in a quote* | may | I | your dog | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | | 5 | **wait** | infinitive | | | | | | for yes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | no owner | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **touch** | infinitive · do-support | | owner | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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:022-meeting-a-dog-safely.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Reading a dog's body language, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/20/) - next →: [Meeting a dog safely, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/)