--- title: Before you pat a stranger's dog, ask the owner, then let the dog sni… — Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds · tree and pragmatics description: Before you pat a stranger's dog, ask the owner, then let the dog sniff your hand before you stroke its side. Who acts: you, 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 (you, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:11 # text = Before you pat a stranger's dog, ask the owner, then let the dog sniff your hand before you stroke its side. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 228-parks-and-playgrounds.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 ×2 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pat pat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 before before SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 stroke stroke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pat** | present | you | a stranger's dog | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the owner | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | | | | then | | tree rules | | 4 | **sniff** | infinitive | the dog | your hand | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 5 | **stroke** | present | you | hand's side | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer | 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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:11`. **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 ×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: [Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/9/) - next →: [Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/)