Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 0

A dog cannot say «I'm scared» or «let's play», but it says both all day long with its tail, ears, eyes, mouth and whole body.

Who acts: dog, 's · What happens: not say, be, let, play, say · To what, where: 's, both · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe» 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, 's), 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	5 say	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 scared	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 scared	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 scared	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
14	's	us	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 says	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 says	nsubj
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 says	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 long	obl:unmarked
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 says	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 tail	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tail	nmod:poss
27	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 says	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ears	punct
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tail	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eyes	punct
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tail	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mouth	punct
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tail	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 body	cc
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 body	amod
36	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mouth	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can	a dog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	a dog = dog		scared property	tree rules
3	let in a quote	infinitive	a dog not said here	's		tree rules
4	play in a quote	infinitive	's not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	present	dog	both	with dog's tail and ears and eyes and mouth and whole body; long property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent both=Theme with tail=Manner

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:194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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