--- title: "If it's a dog, it's an animal" says nothing about things that aren'… — "If... then..." and its traps · tree and pragmatics description: "If it's a dog, it's an animal" says nothing about things that aren't dogs: cats, horses and people are animals too. Who acts: consequent, animal, things, cats. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (consequent, animal, things, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:12 # text = "If it's a dog, it's an animal" says nothing about things that aren't dogs: cats, horses and people are animals too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 184-if-then-and-its-traps.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 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 obj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 parataxis _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | consequent | a dog | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | consequent | a animal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a animal | nothing | | | | about things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | things | dogs | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | cats and horses and people | animals | | | | | 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:world:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:12`. **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/). - ← previous: ["If... then..." and its traps, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/11/) - next →: ["If... then..." and its traps, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/)