--- title: Always ask the owner before you pat a dog, and wait for them to say… — Meeting a dog safely · tree and pragmatics description: Always ask the owner before you pat a dog, and wait for them to say yes. Who acts: you, arms. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Meeting a dog safely](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/) / 8 # Meeting a dog safely, sentence 8 Always ask the owner before you pat a dog, and wait for them to say yes. **Who acts:** you, arms · **What happens:** ask, pat, wait, say · **To what, where:** owner, dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, arms), 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:8 # text = Always ask the owner before you pat a dog, and wait for them to say yes. # 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, R5-strong ×2 1 Always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 2 advmod _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pat pat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 12 wait wait VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 17 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the owner | | | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 2 | **pat** | present | you | a dog | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | | 3 | **wait** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | arms *= arm* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic | 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:8`. **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, R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Meeting a dog safely, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/7/) - next →: [Meeting a dog safely, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/)