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title: A dog's nose temperature changes through the day, so a warm, dry nos… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog's nose temperature changes through the day, so a warm, dry nose is not a reliable sign of illness; eating, drinking and behaviour are better signs. Who acts: nose temperature, warm dry nose, eating. A sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths course of Mova's 
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# Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 15

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A dog's nose temperature changes through the day, so a warm, dry nose is not a reliable sign of illness; eating, drinking and behaviour are better signs.

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**Who acts:** nose temperature, warm dry nose, eating · **What happens:** change, not be, be · **To what, where:** reliable sign, better signs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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 (nose temperature, warm dry nose, eating), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:15
# text = A dog's nose temperature changes through the day, so a warm, dry nose is not a reliable sign of illness; eating, drinking and behaviour are better signs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | a dog's nose temperature |  |  |  | day |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a warm dry nose | a reliable sign |  |  |  | of illness | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | eating and drinking and behaviour | better signs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:15`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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