--- title: If a strange dog runs at you, do not run or scream: «be a tree» — st… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics description: If a strange dog runs at you, do not run or scream: «be a tree» — stand still, fold your arms in close, look down at your feet and stay quiet until it loses interest. Who acts: strange dog, you, hand. 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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 (strange dog, you, hand), 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:3 # text = If a strange dog runs at you, do not run or scream: «be a tree» — stand still, fold your arms in close, look down at your feet and stay quiet until it loses interest. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 scream scream VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 21 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 fold fold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 37 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 until until SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 loses lose VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a strange dog | | | | | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **run** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a tree | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | infinitive | | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fold** | infinitive | | your arms | | close | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 7 | **look down** | infinitive | | | | | | at your feet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | | 8 | **stay** | infinitive | | | | | | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **lose** | present | hand | interest | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality | 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:3`. **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): 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/2/) - next →: [Meeting a dog safely, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/)