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title: Ben reached over a fence to stroke the neighbour's dog and it bit hi… — Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben reached over a fence to stroke the neighbour's dog and it bit his hand; he needed three stitches, and in bed he kept seeing its teeth: "It just went for me. Who acts: Ben, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection course of Mova's prim
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# Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 1

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Ben reached over a fence to stroke the neighbour's dog and it bit his hand; he needed three stitches, and in bed he kept seeing its teeth: "It just went for me.

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**Who acts:** Ben, dog · **What happens:** reach, stroke, bite, need, keep, see · **To what, where:** fence, dog, hand, three stitches, bed, teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection 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 (Ben, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.lesson:1
# text = Ben reached over a fence to stroke the neighbour's dog and it bit his hand; he needed three stitches, and in bed he kept seeing its teeth: "It just went for me.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stroke	stroke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
33	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Ben |  |  | a fence |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over fence=Path |
| 2 | **stroke** | to-infinitive | Ben *not said here* | the neighbour's dog |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bite** | past | dog | Ben's hand |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 4 | **need** | past | Ben | three stitches |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | past | Ben |  |  | bed |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | gerund | Ben *not said here* | dog's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus |
| 7 | **go** *in a quote* | past | dog |  |  |  |  | for me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary |

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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:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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