How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 1
For the dog this is reading the news: who passed by, how long ago, and whether it was a male or a female.
Who acts: this, news, dog · What happens: read, pass by, be · To what, where: news, male
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 (this, news, dog), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 dog | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reading | obl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 reading | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reading | aux |
| 6 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reading | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 reading | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 news | acl:relcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 passed | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ago | punct |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 ago | advmod |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 male | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 male | cc |
| 19 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 male | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 male | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 male | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 male | det |
| 23 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 female | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 female | det |
| 26 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 male | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reading | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present · progressive | this | the news | for the dog | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic | |||
| 2 | pass by | participle | the news | ago property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | dog | a male or a female | tree rules |
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:1.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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