How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 2
A dog lives first in a world of smells, then of sounds; its eyes matter less.
Who acts: dog, eyes · What happens: live, matter · To what, where: world
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, eyes), 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 | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 lives | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 smells | case |
| 9 | smells | smell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 world | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounds | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sounds | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sounds | case |
| 13 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 smells | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 less | punct |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 17 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lives | parataxis |
| 18 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 matter | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | 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 | live | present | a dog | a world of smells and sounds | first property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | |||
| 2 | matter | present | dog's eyes | less property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:2.
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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