Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 13

Always ask the owner before stroking a dog, let it sniff your hand, and stroke its side or chest rather than reaching over its head, because a hand coming down over its head can feel like a threat.

Who acts: you, owner, hand · What happens: ask, stroke, let, sniff, reach, come down · To what, where: owner, dog, hand, side, head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe» of the biology 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 (you, owner, hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owner	det
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 stroking	mark
6	stroking	stroke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ask	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stroking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sniff	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stroke	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stroke	cc
17	stroke	stroke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 let	parataxis
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 side	nmod:poss
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stroke	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 chest	cc
21	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 side	conj
22	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	24 reaching	cc
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 rather	fixed
24	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stroke	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reaching	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 coming	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 coming	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hand	det
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coming	nsubj
32	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 feel	advcl
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 coming	advmod
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 head	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coming	obl
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 feel	aux
38	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 stroke	advcl
39	like	like	ADP	_	41 threat	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 threat	det
41	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 feel	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the owner		always property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
2	stroke	gerund	you not said here	a dog			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	owner			tree rules
4	sniff	infinitive	owner not said here	your hand			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
5	stroke	infinitive		hand's side or chest			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer
6	reach	gerund			hand's head		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over head=Path
7	come down	gerund	a hand		hand's head	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over head=Initial_Location
8	feel	can				like a threat	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like threat=Theme

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, 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:biology:194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe.lesson:13.

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. 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.

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