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title: For weeks he crossed the road even for tiny dogs; the dog had not ha… — Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: For weeks he crossed the road even for tiny dogs; the dog had not hated him, it was scared or guarding its garden, and he had reached in without asking. Who acts: fear, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection course of Mova's primary sch
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# Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 4

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For weeks he crossed the road even for tiny dogs; the dog had not hated him, it was scared or guarding its garden, and he had reached in without asking.

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**Who acts:** fear, dog · **What happens:** cross, not hate, be, guard, reach, ask · **To what, where:** road, fear, garden

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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 (fear, 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:4
# text = For weeks he crossed the road even for tiny dogs; the dog had not hated him, it was scared or guarding its garden, and he had reached in without asking.
# 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 ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | fear | the road |  |  | week | for tiny dogs | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **hate** | past · perfect | the dog | fear |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **guard** | gerund | dog *not said here* | dog's garden |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **reach** | past · perfect | fear |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | fear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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**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: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): 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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