Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 6

The play bow, front legs down and bottom up, is an invitation to play, and dogs also use it to say «still a game» after a rough moment.

Who acts: play bow, dogs · What happens: bottom up, be, play, use, say · To what, where: invitation, bow, game · 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 (play bow, dogs), 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 bow	det
2	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bow	compound
3	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 invitation	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 down	punct
5	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legs	amod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 down	nsubj
7	down	down	ADV	_	3 bow	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bottom	cc
9	bottom	bottom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 down	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 bottom	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bow	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 invitation	cop
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 invitation	det
14	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 play	mark
16	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 invitation	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 use	cc
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 use	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 use	advmod
21	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 invitation	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 use	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 say	mark
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 use	advcl
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 game	punct
26	still	still	ADV	_	28 game	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 game	det
28	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obj
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 game	punct
30	after	after	ADP	_	33 moment	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 moment	det
32	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 moment	amod
33	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 say	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 invitation	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bottom up	infinitive	the play bow not said here			tree rules
2	is a	present	the play bow	a invitation		tree rules
3	play	to-infinitive				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	use	present	dogs	bow		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	dogs not said here	a game	moment	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=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:6.

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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