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title: Any dog bite that breaks the skin needs washing with soap and water… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Any dog bite that breaks the skin needs washing with soap and water and should be shown to a doctor. Who acts: dog bite. 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 18

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Any dog bite that breaks the skin needs washing with soap and water and should be shown to a doctor.

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**Who acts:** dog bite · **What happens:** break, need, show · **To what, where:** skin, washing, doctor

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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 (dog bite), 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:18
# text = Any dog bite that breaks the skin needs washing with soap and water and should be shown to a doctor.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | any dog bite | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | any dog bite | washing |  |  |  | with soap and water | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot washing=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | should · passive | any dog bite *not said here* |  | a doctor |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: to doctor=Recipient |

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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:18`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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