--- title: Walk past a barking dog slowly and calmly without staring or running… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: Walk past a barking dog slowly and calmly without staring or running, because running can make a dog chase you. Who acts: you, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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/90-facing-fears/4/) [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/) / [Facing fears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/) / 4 # Facing fears, sentence 4 Walk past a barking dog slowly and calmly without staring or running, because running can make a dog chase you. **Who acts:** you, dog · **What happens:** walk, bark, stare, run, make, chase · **To what, where:** dog, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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 (you, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:4 # text = Walk past a barking dog slowly and calmly without staring or running, because running can make a dog chase you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 090-facing-fears.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 Walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 past past ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 barking bark VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 6 conj _ _ 9 without without SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | past a barking dog; slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past dog=Trajectory | | 2 | **bark** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stare** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** | can | | a dog | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **chase** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | you | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:090-facing-fears.lesson:4`. **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: [Facing fears, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/3/) - next →: [Facing fears, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)