Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 1

Watch two dogs in the park: one drops its front legs to the grass with its bottom in the air, and the other bounces off after it.

Who acts: you, one, other · What happens: watch, drop, bounce off · To what, where: two dogs, park, front legs, grass

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 (you, one, other), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dogs	nummod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Watch	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 park	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 park	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 drops	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 drops	nsubj
9	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drops	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 grass	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drops	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 bottom	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bottom	nmod:poss
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drops	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bottom	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bounces	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bounces	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bounces	nsubj
26	bounces	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 drops	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 bounces	compound:prt
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bounces	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	two dogs	the park			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	drop	present	one	park's front legs	the grass		with grass's bottom in the air	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leg=Theme to grass=Destination
3	bounce off	present	the other			after air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:1.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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