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title: A dog is strong and fast: a big dog can pull a child over or into a… — Dogs and rabbits in your care · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog is strong and fast: a big dog can pull a child over or into a road, and a dog that runs off can be hit by a car, so walks and time off the lead need care. Who acts: dog, big dog, car, walks. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» of the everyday course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Dogs and rabbits in your care, sentence 1

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A dog is strong and fast: a big dog can pull a child over or into a road, and a dog that runs off can be hit by a car, so walks and time off the lead need care.

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**Who acts:** dog, big dog, car, walks · **What happens:** be, pull over, run off, hit, need · **To what, where:** child, dog, care

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs and rabbits in your care» 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 (dog, big dog, car, walks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:1
# text = A dog is strong and fast: a big dog can pull a child over or into a road, and a dog that runs off can be hit by a car, so walks and time off the lead need care.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:agent	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
35	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	off	off	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
42	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a dog |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pull over** | can | a big dog | a child or a road |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent child=Result |
| 4 | **run off** | present | a dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hit** | can · passive | a car | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **need** | present | walks and time off the lead | care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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