--- title: Dogs often bite because they are scared or guarding their space; ask… — Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the da… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs often bite because they are scared or guarding their space; asking the owner first and letting a dog sniff your hand are basic dog rules. Who acts: Dogs, steps, dog, asking. A sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection course of Mova's primar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/6-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger/10/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays af…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/6-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger/) / 10 # Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 10 Dogs often bite because they are scared or guarding their space; asking the owner first and letting a dog sniff your hand are basic dog rules. **Who acts:** Dogs, steps, dog, asking · **What happens:** bite, be, guard, ask, let, sniff · **To what, where:** space, owner, dog, hand, basic dog rules 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 (Dogs, steps, dog, asking), 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:10 # text = Dogs often bite because they are scared or guarding their space; asking the owner first and letting a dog sniff your hand are basic dog rules. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 13 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 sniff sniff VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 basic basic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | Dogs | | | | | often *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | steps *= step* | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **guard** | gerund | steps *= step* *not said here* | steps's space | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Beneficiary | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | the owner | | | | first *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 5 | **let** | gerund | | a dog | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sniff** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | your hand | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | present | asking | basic dog rules | | | | | tree rules | 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:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.lesson:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays af…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/6-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger/9/) - next →: [Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays af…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/6-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/6-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger/)