Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 9
Sheepdogs herd, terriers dig after rats, retrievers carry back shot birds gently in soft mouths, and hounds follow scents or chase by sight.
Who acts: Sheepdogs, terriers, retrievers, hounds · What happens: herd, dig, carry back, follow, chase · To what, where: shot birds, soft mouths, scents
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 (Sheepdogs, terriers, retrievers, hounds), 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 | Sheepdogs | sheepdog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 herd | nsubj |
| 2 | herd | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 herd | punct |
| 4 | terriers | terrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dig | nsubj |
| 5 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 herd | conj |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 rats | case |
| 7 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dig | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carry | punct |
| 9 | retrievers | retriever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | nsubj |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dig | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 carry | advmod |
| 12 | shot | shot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 birds | amod |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | obj |
| 14 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 10 carry | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mouths | case |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mouths | amod |
| 17 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carry | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 follow | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 follow | cc |
| 20 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 follow | nsubj |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 carry | conj |
| 22 | scents | scent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 follow | obj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 chase | cc |
| 24 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 follow | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 sight | case |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chase | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 herd | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | herd | present | Sheepdogs | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | dig | present | terriers | after rats | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry back | present | retrievers | shot birds | soft mouths | gently property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Value in mouth=Location | ||
| 4 | follow | present | hounds | scents | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | chase | present | hounds not said here | by sight | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by sight=Trajectory |
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:9.
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): R6-punct-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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