--- title: Running or waving your arms at a strange dog can make it chase or ju… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: Running or waving your arms at a strange dog can make it chase or jump. Who acts: Running, arm. 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/29/) [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/) / 29 # Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 29 Running or waving your arms at a strange dog can make it chase or jump. **Who acts:** Running, arm · **What happens:** run, wave, make, chase, jump · **To what, where:** arms, arm 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 (Running, arm), 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:29 # text = Running or waving your arms at a strange dog can make it chase or jump. # 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 Running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wave** | gerund | | your arms | | | | at a strange dog | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 3 | **make** | can | Running | arm | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **chase** | infinitive | arm *not said here* | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **jump** | infinitive | arm *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:29`. **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?, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/28/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)