--- title: A boy in Dublin ran away screaming from a loose dog; the dog chased… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Dublin ran away screaming from a loose dog; the dog chased him, jumped up and knocked him down, but he was not badly hurt when he finally stood still like a tree. Who acts: boy, 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 (boy, 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:7 # text = A boy in Dublin ran away screaming from a loose dog; the dog chased him, jumped up and knocked him down, but he was not badly hurt when he finally stood still like a tree. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 screaming scream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:cop 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 30 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 finally finally ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run away** | past | a boy in Dublin | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | a boy in Dublin *not said here* | | | | | from a loose dog | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **chase** | past | the dog | boy | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **jump up** | past | the dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **knock down** | past | the dog *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 6 | **not** **hurt** | past · passive | | boy | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **stand** | past | boy | | | | still | like a tree; finally *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:7`. **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, 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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/6/) - next →: [Meeting a dog safely, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/)