--- title: A boy in Ohio tried to take a bone away from his dog while it was ea… — Cats and dogs up close · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio tried to take a bone away from his dog while it was eating; the dog snapped and bit his hand, and he needed stitches. Who acts: boy, cheek, 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 (boy, cheek, 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:7 # text = A boy in Ohio tried to take a bone away from his dog while it was eating; the dog snapped and bit his hand, and he needed stitches. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 snapped snap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 30 stitches stitch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | a boy in Ohio | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | a bone | | | | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | past · progressive | cheek | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **snap** | past | the dog | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 5 | **bite** | past | the dog *not said here* | boy's hand | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 6 | **need** | past | boy | stitches | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme | 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:7`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cats and dogs up close, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/6/) - next →: [Cats and dogs up close, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/61-cats-and-dogs-up-close/)