Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 3
The same body can also say «stop»: a tucked tail, a yawn, the whites of the eyes showing, a stiff body or a growl are polite warnings that come before any bite.
Who acts: same body, eyes, whites, polite warnings · What happens: say, tuck, show, be, come · To what, where: stop, stiff body, polite warnings, bite · 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 (same body, eyes, whites, polite warnings), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 body | amod |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
| 8 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 tail | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tail | det |
| 12 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tail | amod |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yawn | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 yawn | det |
| 16 | yawn | yawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tail | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whites | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 whites | det |
| 19 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 warnings | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 whites | nmod |
| 23 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 eyes | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 body | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 body | det |
| 26 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 body | amod |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 showing | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 growl | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 growl | det |
| 30 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 body | conj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 warnings | cop |
| 32 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 warnings | amod |
| 33 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tail | nmod |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 come | nsubj |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 warnings | acl:relcl |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 38 bite | case |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 bite | det |
| 38 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 come | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | the same body | stop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stop=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tuck | participle | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | show | gerund | the eyes not said here | a stiff body or a growl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the whites of the eyes | polite warnings | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | present | polite warnings | any bite | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before bite=Location |
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:3.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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