Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 5
Inside every breed the wolf still shows: a family dog may tilt its head or howl along when it hears a wolf on television.
Who acts: wolf, family dog, head · What happens: show, tilt, howl, hear · To what, where: breed, head, wolf, television
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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 (wolf, family dog, head), 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 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 breed | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 breed | det |
| 3 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | nsubj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 shows | advmod |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 shows | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | compound |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tilt | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 tilt | aux |
| 13 | tilt | tilt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shows | parataxis |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tilt | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 howl | cc |
| 17 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tilt | conj |
| 18 | along | along | ADV | _ | 17 howl | advmod |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 hears | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hears | nsubj |
| 21 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 howl | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wolf | det |
| 23 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hears | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 television | case |
| 25 | television | television | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hears | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the wolf | every breed | still | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tilt | may | a family dog | breed's head | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | howl | infinitive | a family dog not said here | along property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hear | present | head | a wolf | television | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus |
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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.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 ×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.
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