Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 5

A loose, wide wag with a wiggly bottom is usually friendly, but a stiff, high tail that wags fast while the dog stares can mean the dog is tense and ready to act.

Who acts: loose wide wag, stiff high tail, dog · What happens: be, wag, stare, mean, act · 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 (loose wide wag, stiff high tail, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wag	det
2	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wag	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 loose	punct
4	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wag	amod
5	wag	wag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 friendly	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 bottom	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bottom	det
8	wiggly	wiggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bottom	amod
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wag	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 friendly	cop
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	12 friendly	advmod
12	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 friendly	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 mean	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tail	det
16	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tail	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tail	punct
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tail	amod
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mean	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 wags	nsubj
21	wags	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tail	acl:relcl
22	fast	fast	ADV	_	21 wags	advmod
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 stares	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stares	nsubj
26	stares	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wags	advcl
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 mean	aux
28	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 friendly	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dog	det
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tense	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 tense	cop
32	tense	tense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mean	ccomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ready	cc
34	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tense	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 act	mark
36	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 ready	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 friendly	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	a loose wide wag with a wiggly bottom	friendly, usually property	tree rules
2	wag	present	a stiff high tail	fast property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stare	present	the dog		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	mean	can	a stiff high tail		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the dog	tense property	tree rules
6	be		the dog not said here		tree rules
7	act	to-infinitive	the dog not said here		vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:5.

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): no change. 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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