--- title: Then let the dog come to you: stand a little sideways, keep your han… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics description: Then let the dog come to you: stand a little sideways, keep your hand low and still, and let it sniff you, because sniffing is how a dog says hello. Who acts: you, 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 (you, dog), 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:1 # text = Then let the dog come to you: stand a little sideways, keep your hand low and still, and let it sniff you, because sniffing is how a dog says hello. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 28 sniffing sniff VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 csubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 30 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 34 hello hello NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the dog | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | the dog *not said here* | | you | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **stand** | infinitive | | | | | | sideways *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | | your hand | | | | low *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | dog | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sniff** | infinitive | dog *not said here* | you | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 7 | **sniff** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | a dog | | | | | say *property* | tree rules | 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:1`. **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 ×2, 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: [Meeting a dog safely, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/0/) - next →: [Meeting a dog safely, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/)