--- title: Always ask the owner before touching any dog, even one that is waggi… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Always ask the owner before touching any dog, even one that is wagging; a wagging tail does not always mean friendly. Who acts: you, wagging tail. 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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, wagging tail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:31 # text = Always ask the owner before touching any dog, even one that is wagging; a wagging tail does not always mean friendly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.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 ×1 1 Always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 2 advmod _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 appos _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 wagging wag VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 wagging wag VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 amod _ _ 18 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 21 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 22 advmod _ _ 22 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 23 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | the owner | | | | always *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 2 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | any dog | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme | | 3 | **wag** | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wag** | gerund | | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | a wagging tail | | | | | always, friendly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:31`. **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 ×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. 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