How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 7

Other dogs leave scent marks with urine (wee) on lamp posts that tell who passed, how long ago, and whether they were male or female.

Who acts: Other dogs, lamp posts, marks · What happens: leave, tell, pass, be · To what, where: scent marks, lamp posts · 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 (Other dogs, lamp posts, marks), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dogs	amod
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	nsubj
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marks	compound
5	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 urine	case
7	urine	urine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marks	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 wee	punct
9	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 urine	appos
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 wee	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 posts	case
12	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 posts	compound
13	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 posts	acl:relcl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 passed	nsubj
17	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ago	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 ago	advmod
21	ago	ago	ADV	_	17 passed	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 male	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 male	cc
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 male	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 male	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 male	cop
27	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tell	ccomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 female	cc
29	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 male	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Other dogs	scent marks	lamp posts		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on post=Location
2	tell speech: assert	present	lamp posts				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass	past				ago property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	marks = mark			male property	tree rules
5	be		marks = mark not said here				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:7.

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 ×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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