How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 17
Scientists found that dogs make the same guilty look whether or not they did anything, if the owner is cross; the look is a way to calm an upset person.
Who acts: Scientists, dogs, owner, look · What happens: find, make, not do, be, calm · To what, where: same guilty look, anything, way, upset person · 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 (Scientists, dogs, owner, look), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 look | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | amod |
| 8 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | amod |
| 9 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 did | mark |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 whether | fixed |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 did | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | advcl |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 did | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cross | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 cross | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 owner | det |
| 19 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cross | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cross | cop |
| 21 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 make | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 way | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 look | det |
| 24 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 way | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 way | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 calm | mark |
| 29 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 way | acl |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 person | det |
| 31 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 person | amod |
| 32 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 calm | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Scientists | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | dogs | the same guilty look | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Product | ||||
| 3 | not do | past | Scientists = scientist | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the owner | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the look | a way | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | calm | to-infinitive | Scientists not said here | a upset person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer |
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:17.
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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