Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 4

A wagging tail is not always friendly; you have to read the whole dog, not one part, and if a dog is telling you it is uneasy, the kind and safe thing is to give it space.

Who acts: wagging tail, you, dog, part, kind safe thing · What happens: wag, not be, have, read, tell, be · To what, where: whole dog, you, space, part · 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 (wagging tail, you, dog, part), 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	3 tail	det
2	wagging	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tail	amod
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 friendly	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 friendly	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 friendly	advmod
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 read	mark
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dog	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dog	amod
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 read	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 part	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 part	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 part	nummod
19	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dog	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 uneasy	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 uneasy	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 telling	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 telling	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 telling	aux
26	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 uneasy	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 telling	iobj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 uneasy	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 uneasy	cop
30	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friendly	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kind	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 kind	det
33	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 thing	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thing	cc
35	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 thing	amod
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 give	aux
38	to	to	PART	_	39 give	mark
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 friendly	parataxis
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 give	iobj
41	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 friendly	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wag	gerund					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	a wagging tail			always, friendly property	tree rules
3	have	present	you				tree rules
4	read	to-infinitive	you not said here	the whole dog and one part			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
5	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	a dog		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	is	present	part			uneasy property	tree rules
7	give	present	kind safe thing	space	part		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient space=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:4.

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 ×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.

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