Interpretation scheme, what the different scores meassure.

(Please be patient with my treating of the English language.
I really whish I was able to use it perfectly, but life is not
allways what we want it to be :-)!)

1 a. Contact, greeting: How the dog contacts, handles foreign people	1b.Contact, co-oporation: How the dog behaves when the test leader approaches and tries to contact it	1c. Contact, handling: How well the dog accepts the handling of him by the test leader, walk away with him, is attentive to him	2a.Contact, play: How eagerly the dog is playing with the test leader	2b. Biting: How the dog bites a piece of cloth (a rag) that the test leader reaches it
2c. Gripping: If the dog is willing, or not, to play tug of war with the test leader	3a2. Chasing; How the dog chases a fleeing object	3b2. Chasing, biting: If the dog bites, takes the object	4. Activity: How the dog behaves while its master is doing nothing, ignoring the dog, is active part of, or all all the time, or if it relaxes	5a. Distance, Play, interest: How interested the dog is of a person at a distance from its master
5b. Distance, play, aggression: If the dog behaves aggressively towards the distant test-assistant	5c. Distance, play, curiosity:How eagerly, if at all, the dog approaches and makes contact with a test-assistant that has been scaring at first (dressed like a ghost :-)!	5d.Distance, play, playfulness: If the dog is willing to play with the distant test-assistant, att a distance from its master	5e. Distance, play, co-operativeness: How well, or intensively, the dog is playing with the distant test-assistant at a distance from its master	6a. Surprise, fearfulness.: How scared the dog becomes by a suddenly emerging object (a stuffed overall)
6b. Surprise, threats, aggression: It the dog is trying to threaten the stuffed overall	6c. Surprise, curiosity: How soon the dog makes contact with the stuffed overall after its emergancy	6d. Surprise, remaining fear: How soon the dog comes over its fear for the suddenly emerging stuffed overall	6e. Surprise, remaning interest: For how long time the dog keeps up its interest in the stuffed overall	7a. Sound sensitivity, fear: How scared the dog becomes of a sudden and hard noice
7b. Sound sensitivity, curiosity: How soon the dog investigates the source of the sound	7c. Sound sensitivity, remaining fear: How soon the dog gets over its fear after the hard sound has been presented	7d. Sound sensitivity, remaining interest: How soon the dog forgets, looses interest in the source of the sound	8a. "Ghosts", threat/aggression: If the dog tries to threaten the "ghosts" away	8b. "Ghosts", control: How careful the dog follows the movements of the "ghosts"
8c. "Ghosts" fear: How scared the dog becomes for the covered "ghosts"	8d. "Ghosts" curiosity: How interested the dog is in approaching and contacting the uncovered "ghosts".	8e. "Ghosts", contact: How the dog makes contact with the uncovered "ghosts", eagerly, reservedly	9a: Play 2, playfulness: How soon after having heard a shot, the dog is willing to play again	9b: Play 2, biting: How willing the dog plays tug of war after the shooting

The dog is also scored according to its reaction during shooting, number 10 in the diagram.

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