Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 14

Dogs sniff each other's bottoms to say hello, because special scent glands there tell who the other dog is, a bit like reading an identity card.

Who acts: Dogs, special scent glands, bit · What happens: sniff, say, tell, be, read · To what, where: other bottoms, bit, identity card · 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 (Dogs, special scent glands, bit), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sniff	nsubj
2	sniff	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bottoms	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bottoms	amod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 other	case
6	bottoms	bottom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sniff	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sniff	advcl
9	hello	hello	INTJ	_	8 say	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glands	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
12	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 glands	amod
13	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glands	compound
14	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tell	nsubj
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 glands	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sniff	advcl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 bit	nsubj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dog	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dog	amod
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bit	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bit	cop
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 is	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	ccomp
25	like	like	SCONJ	_	26 reading	mark
26	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 bit	acl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 card	det
28	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 card	compound
29	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reading	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sniff	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sniff	present	Dogs	each other bottoms	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Dogs not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present	special scent glands		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		a bit	tree rules
5	read	gerund	a bit not said here	a identity card	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Topic

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:14.

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, R8-pos-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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