Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 7

A dog that yawns, licks its lips or looks away when the vet comes close is usually not tired but uneasy; these are called calming signals.

Who acts: dog, vet · What happens: yawn, lick, look away, come, not be, be · To what, where: lips, these · 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 (dog, vet), 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	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tired	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 yawns	nsubj
4	yawns	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dog	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 licks	punct
6	licks	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 yawns	conj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lips	nmod:poss
8	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 licks	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 looks	cc
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 yawns	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 looks	advmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 comes	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vet	det
14	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 looks	advcl
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 comes	xcomp
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	cop
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 tired	advmod
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 tired	advmod
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 uneasy	cc
22	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tired	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 called	nsubj:pass
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 called	aux:pass
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tired	conj
27	calming	calming	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 signals	amod
28	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 called	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 tired	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	yawn	present	a dog			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lick	present	a dog not said here	bow's lips		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source
3	look away	present	a dog not said here		away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	come	present	the vet		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is	present	a dog		tired, usually property	tree rules
6	be		a dog not said here			tree rules
7	call	present · passive		these		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:7.

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.

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