--- title: If a dog runs at you, standing still with your arms by your sides an… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: If a dog runs at you, standing still with your arms by your sides and calling for the owner is safest. Who acts: dog, standing. A sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/28/) [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/) / [Self-defence or just stupid?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/) / 28 # Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 28 If a dog runs at you, standing still with your arms by your sides and calling for the owner is safest. **Who acts:** dog, standing · **What happens:** run, stand, call, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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, standing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:28 # text = If a dog runs at you, standing still with your arms by your sides and calling for the owner is safest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a dog | | | | | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | | | | | still | with your arms by your sides | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | gerund | | | | | | for the owner | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for owner=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | standing | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | 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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:28`. **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): no change. **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: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/27/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)