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title: If it stays relaxed and leans in, stroke it gently on the chest or t… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics
description: If it stays relaxed and leans in, stroke it gently on the chest or the side of the neck, not on the top of its head, and never hug it or put your face close to its face. Who acts: hand, you. A sentence of the lesson «Meeting a dog safely» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Meeting a dog safely, sentence 2

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If it stays relaxed and leans in, stroke it gently on the chest or the side of the neck, not on the top of its head, and never hug it or put your face close to its face.

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**Who acts:** hand, you · **What happens:** stay, lean in, stroke, not hug, put · **To what, where:** hand, chest, face

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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 (hand, you), 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:2
# text = If it stays relaxed and leans in, stroke it gently on the chest or the side of the neck, not on the top of its head, and never hug it or put your face close to its face.
# 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 ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	leans	lean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	stroke	stroke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	hug	hug	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | hand |  |  |  |  | relaxed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lean in** | present | hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stroke** | imperative | you *not said here* | hand |  | the chest or the side of the neck |  | on the top of hand's head; gently *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hug** | infinitive | you *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your face |  |  |  | close *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent face=Goal |

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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:2`.

**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 ×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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