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title: Most dogs feel trapped when hugged, so you stroke a dog's chest or s… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics
description: Most dogs feel trapped when hugged, so you stroke a dog's chest or side and keep your face away from its face. Who acts: Most dogs, you. A sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cats and dogs up close, sentence 17

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Most dogs feel trapped when hugged, so you stroke a dog's chest or side and keep your face away from its face.

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**Who acts:** Most dogs, you · **What happens:** feel, trap, hug, stroke, keep · **To what, where:** chest, face

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» 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 (Most dogs, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:17
# text = Most dogs feel trapped when hugged, so you stroke a dog's chest or side and keep your face away from its face.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hugged	hug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stroke	stroke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | Most dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **trap** | participle | Most dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hug** | participle | Most dogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stroke** | present | you | a dog's chest or side |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | you *not said here* | your face |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme |

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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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2, 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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