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title: Never disturb a dog that is eating, sleeping, chewing a toy or looki… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Never disturb a dog that is eating, sleeping, chewing a toy or looking after puppies. Who acts: you, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Meeting a dog safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Meeting a dog safely, sentence 12

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Never disturb a dog that is eating, sleeping, chewing a toy or looking after puppies.

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**Who acts:** you, dog · **What happens:** not disturb, eat, sleep, chew, look · **To what, where:** dog, toy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Meeting a dog safely» 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 (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:12
# text = Never disturb a dog that is eating, sleeping, chewing a toy or looking after puppies.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **disturb** | imperative | you *not said here* | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dog=Experiencer |
| 2 | **eat** | present · progressive | a dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | gerund | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **chew** | gerund | a dog *not said here* | a toy |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  | after puppies |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:022-meeting-a-dog-safely.lesson:12`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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/).

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