--- title: A muzzle or a short lead on a dog means «don't touch»; it keeps peop… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: A muzzle or a short lead on a dog means «don't touch»; it keeps people safe and can let a dog that has bitten stay at home. Who acts: muzzle, lead, dog. 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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 (muzzle, lead, dog), 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:33 # text = A muzzle or a short lead on a dog means «don't touch»; it keeps people safe and can let a dog that has bitten stay at home. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 muzzle muzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a muzzle or a short lead on a dog | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | lead | people | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 4 | **let** | can | lead *not said here* | a dog | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bite** | present · perfect | a dog | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stay** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | | | home | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | 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:33`. **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): 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. 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