--- title: A girl in Sydney ran up to a dog tied outside a shop and reached ove… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Sydney ran up to a dog tied outside a shop and reached over its head; the frightened dog bit her arm, and she needed a doctor. Who acts: girl, dog, frightened 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 (girl, dog, frightened 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:6 # text = A girl in Sydney ran up to a dog tied outside a shop and reached over its head; the frightened dog bit her arm, and she needed 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 outside outside ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 up** | past | a girl in Sydney | | | | | to a dog *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dog=Result | | 2 | **tie** | participle | a dog *not said here* | a shop | | | | outside *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **reach** | past | a girl in Sydney *not said here* | | | hand's head | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over head=Path | | 4 | **bite** | past | the frightened dog | girl's arm | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 5 | **need** | past | girl | a doctor | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/3/) - next →: [Meeting a dog safely, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/)