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title: Dogs wag their tails for many feelings, including nervousness and wa… — Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs wag their tails for many feelings, including nervousness and warning, so look at the whole dog and ask the owner before stroking. Who acts: Dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 8

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Dogs wag their tails for many feelings, including nervousness and warning, so look at the whole dog and ask the owner before stroking.

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**Who acts:** Dogs · **What happens:** wag, look, ask, stroke · **To what, where:** tails, owner

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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 (Dogs), 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:8
# text = Dogs wag their tails for many feelings, including nervousness and warning, so look at the whole dog and ask the owner before stroking.
# 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): no change
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wag	wag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	including	include	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nervousness	nervousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	stroking	stroke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **wag** | present | Dogs | Cats's tails |  |  |  | for many feelings include nervousness and warning | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at the whole dog | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dog=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive |  | the owner |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |
| 4 | **stroke** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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/).

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