How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 0
On a walk your dog stops at a lamp post and sniffs for ages while you tug the lead.
Who acts: dog, you · What happens: stop, sniff, tug · To what, where: walk, lamp post, lead
This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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 (dog, you), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 walk | det |
| 3 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stops | obl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dog | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stops | nsubj |
| 6 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 post | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 post | det |
| 9 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 post | compound |
| 10 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stops | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sniffs | cc |
| 12 | sniffs | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stops | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 ages | case |
| 14 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sniffs | obl |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 tug | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tug | nsubj |
| 17 | tug | tug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sniffs | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lead | det |
| 19 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tug | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | your dog | a walk | a lamp post | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at post=Location | |||
| 2 | sniff | present | your dog not said here | for ages | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tug | present | you | the lead | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lead=Patient |
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:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:0.
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 ×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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