--- title: If a dog has something in its mouth it should not, you never grab it… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: If a dog has something in its mouth it should not, you never grab it out; you swap it for a treat or get an adult. Who acts: dog, pavement, you. 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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 (dog, pavement, 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:24 # text = If a dog has something in its mouth it should not, you never grab it out; you swap it for a treat or get an adult. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:outer _ _ 10 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 grab grab VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 swap swap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **have** | present | a dog | something | | pavement's mouth | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 2 | **not** **grab out** | should | pavement | mouth | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **swap** | present | you | pavement | | | | for a treat | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for treat=Co-Theme | | 4 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a adult | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=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:24`. **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/). - ← previous: [Cats and dogs up close, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/23/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)