How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 4

Its ears catch sounds too high or too quiet for us, which is why it runs to the door when the family car is still far down the road.

Who acts: ears, nostril, family car · What happens: catch, be, run · To what, where: sounds

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 (ears, nostril, family car), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	nsubj
3	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sounds	amod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 quiet	cc
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 quiet	advmod
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 high	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 quiet	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 why	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	cop
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 quiet	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 runs	nsubj
17	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	advcl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 runs	obl
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 far	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 car	det
23	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 car	compound
24	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 far	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 far	cop
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 runs	advcl
28	down	down	ADP	_	30 road	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 road	det
30	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 far	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 catch	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	nostril's ears	sounds			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
2	is	present				why property	tree rules
3	run	present	nostril			to the door result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result
4	is	present	the family car		still	down the road; far property	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:4.

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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