Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 15

Fur standing up along a dog's back is called raised hackles; it shows the dog is very worked up, which can be fear, anger or just big excitement.

Who acts: Fur, dog · What happens: stand up, call, raise, show, work up, be · To what, where: back, Fur, dog, fear · 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 (Fur, dog), 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	Fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	nsubj:pass
2	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Fur	acl
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 standing	advmod
4	along	along	ADP	_	8 back	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dog	case
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 standing	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hackles	amod
12	hackles	hackles	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 called	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 shows	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shows	nsubj
15	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 called	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shows	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 worked	aux:pass
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 worked	advmod
20	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 dog	acl:relcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 worked	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fear	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fear	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fear	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 fear	cop
26	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dog	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 anger	punct
28	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fear	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 excitement	cc
30	just	just	ADV	_	32 excitement	advmod
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 excitement	amod
32	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fear	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand up	gerund	Fur not said here			a dog's back	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along back=Location
2	call speech: assert	present · passive		Fur			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	raise	participle					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	show	present	Fur		the dog		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient
5	work up	present · passive		the dog not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»
6	is a	can	the dog	fear and anger or big excitement			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:194-reading-a-dog-tails-play-bows-growls-and-staying-safe.lesson:15.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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