--- title: Yawning, lip licking and turning the head away are calm-down signals… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: Yawning, lip licking and turning the head away are calm-down signals that show a dog feels uneasy. Who acts: Yawning, down signals, dog. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/18/) [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/) / [Cats and dogs up close](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/) / 18 # Cats and dogs up close, sentence 18 Yawning, lip licking and turning the head away are calm-down signals that show a dog feels uneasy. **Who acts:** Yawning, down signals, dog · **What happens:** turn away, be, show, feel · **To what, where:** head, down signals · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Yawning, down signals, dog), 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:18 # text = Yawning, lip licking and turning the head away are calm-down signals that show a dog feels uneasy. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Yawning yawning NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 licking licking NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 down down ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 uneasy uneasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | **turn away** | gerund | Yawning and lip licking *not said here* | the head | | | | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Yawning and lip licking | down signals | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | present | down signals | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **feel** | present | a dog | | | | | uneasy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cats and dogs up close, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/17/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)