Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?, sentence 8

A dog's loose wag often means friendly excitement, but a cat's swishing tail often means it is annoyed or alert; a friendly cat holds its tail straight up with a little hook at the tip.

Who acts: loose wag, swishing tail, tail, friendly cat · What happens: mean, swish, be, hold · To what, where: friendly excitement, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spike and Tom: real dogs and cats, enemies or friends?» 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 (loose wag, swishing tail, tail, friendly cat), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wag	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wag	amod
5	wag	wag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	nsubj
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 means	advmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 excitement	amod
9	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 means	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cat	det
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tail	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 cat	case
15	swishing	swish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tail	amod
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 means	nsubj
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 means	advmod
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 annoyed	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 annoyed	cop
21	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 means	ccomp
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 alert	cc
23	alert	alert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 annoyed	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 holds	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cat	det
26	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cat	amod
27	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 holds	nsubj
28	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	parataxis
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 holds	obj
31	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 holds	xcomp
32	up	up	ADV	_	31 straight	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 hook	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hook	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hook	amod
36	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 holds	obl
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 tip	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tip	det
39	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hook	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a dog's loose wag	friendly excitement	often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excitement=Topic
2	swish	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	a cat's swishing tail		often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	tail		annoyed property	tree rules
5	be speech: other		tail not said here			tree rules
6	hold	present	a friendly cat	tail's tail	with a little hook at the tip; straight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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:121-spike-and-tom-real-dogs-and-cats.lesson:8.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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.

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