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title: Herding dogs like sheepdogs may nip at running children's heels from… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Herding dogs like sheepdogs may nip at running children's heels from instinct; the owner should call the dog off. Who acts: Herding dogs, owner. A sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 28

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Herding dogs like sheepdogs may nip at running children's heels from instinct; the owner should call the dog off.

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**Who acts:** Herding dogs, owner · **What happens:** herd, nip, run, call off · **To what, where:** running heels, dog

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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 (Herding dogs, owner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:28
# text = Herding dogs like sheepdogs may nip at running children's heels from instinct; the owner should call the dog off.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.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	Herding	herd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sheepdogs	sheepdog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	nip	nip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	amod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	instinct	instinct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **nip** | may | Herding dogs like sheepdogs |  |  | children's running heels |  | from instinct | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=Trajectory |
| 3 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call off** *speech: assert* | should | the owner |  | the dog |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient |

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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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.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/).

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