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title: A dog tied up alone outside a shop may be nervous and snap, so you d… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog tied up alone outside a shop may be nervous and snap, so you do not pat it without its owner. Who acts: dog, you. A sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 7

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A dog tied up alone outside a shop may be nervous and snap, so you do not pat it without its owner.

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**Who acts:** dog, you · **What happens:** tie up, be, snap, not pat · **To what, where:** dog

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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 (dog, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:7
# text = A dog tied up alone outside a shop may be nervous and snap, so you do not pat it without its owner.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	pat	pat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | participle |  | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  | outside a shop; alone *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | may | a dog |  |  |  |  | nervous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **snap** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **pat** | present · do-support | you | dog |  |  |  | without dog's owner | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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.

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**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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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