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title: What slowly turned the alarm down was not his cousin chasing him wit… — Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: What slowly turned the alarm down was not his cousin chasing him with a dog "to get him over it", but learning the dog rules (ask the owner, let it sniff first) and meeting one calm, friendly dog slowly at his aunt's. Who acts: cousin, owner, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when f
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# Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 5

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What slowly turned the alarm down was not his cousin chasing him with a dog "to get him over it", but learning the dog rules (ask the owner, let it sniff first) and meeting one calm, friendly dog slowly at his aunt's.

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**Who acts:** cousin, owner, dog · **What happens:** turn down, not be, chase, get, learn, ask · **To what, where:** alarm, cousin, fear, dog rules, dog, one calm friendly dog · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cousin, owner, 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:5
# text = What slowly turned the alarm down was not his cousin chasing him with a dog "to get him over it", but learning the dog rules (ask the owner, let it sniff first) and meeting one calm, friendly dog slowly at his aunt's.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	csubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	sniff	sniff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
37	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
42	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
46	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
50	's	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **turn down** | past | fear's cousin | the alarm |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alarm=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past |  | fear's cousin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | gerund | fear's cousin *not said here* | fear |  |  |  | with a dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | fear's cousin *not said here* | fear |  |  |  | over dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **learn** | gerund | fear's cousin *not said here* | the dog rules |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the owner |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **let** | infinitive |  | dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **sniff** | infinitive | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **meet** | gerund | fear's cousin *not said here* | one calm friendly dog |  |  |  | at fear's aunt; slowly *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-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:5`.

**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 ×2, 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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