How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 10

A warm dry nose does not always mean a dog is ill; that is an old myth.

Who acts: warm dry nose, dog, that · What happens: not mean, be · To what, where: old myth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (warm dry nose, dog, that), 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	4 nose	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nose	amod
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nose	amod
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 mean	advmod
7	always	always	ADV	_	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ill	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	cop
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mean	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 myth	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 myth	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 myth	cop
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 myth	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 myth	amod
18	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mean	present · do-support	a warm dry nose		always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a dog		ill property	tree rules
3	is a	present	that	a old myth		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:10.

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.

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