How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 6

Some dog behaviour looks human but is not: the famous guilty look after the bin is knocked over is mostly a reaction to your cross voice.

Who acts: dog behaviour · What happens: look, not be, knock over, be · To what, where: famous guilty look, reaction

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 behaviour), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 behaviour	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 behaviour	compound
3	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looks	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 is	cc
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 is	advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 knocked	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 look	det
11	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	amod
12	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	amod
13	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knocked	nsubj:pass
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 knocked	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bin	det
16	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knocked	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 knocked	aux:pass
18	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looks	conj
19	over	over	ADP	_	18 knocked	compound:prt
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 reaction	cop
21	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	23 reaction	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 reaction	det
23	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 voice	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 voice	nmod:poss
26	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 voice	compound
27	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reaction	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	some dog behaviour		human property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not be	present	some dog behaviour not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	knock over	present · passive		the famous guilty look		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
4	is a	present		a reaction	to your cross voice; mostly 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:6.

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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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