Reading a dog: tails, play bows, growls and staying safe, sentence 9

When a hugged dog shows the whites of its eyes, often called whale eye, it is uncomfortable; most dogs do not like hugs, and many bites to children come from dogs they know at home.

Who acts: hugged dog, vet, most dogs, many bites, hugs · What happens: hug, show, call, be, not like, come · To what, where: whites, whale eye, hugs, dogs, home · 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 (hugged dog, vet, most dogs, many bites), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 shows	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dog	det
3	hugged	hug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 uncomfortable	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 whites	det
7	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shows	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 whites	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 called	advmod
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 whites	conj
14	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eye	compound
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 uncomfortable	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 uncomfortable	cop
19	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 like	punct
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 dogs	amod
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 like	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 like	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 like	advmod
25	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 uncomfortable	parataxis
26	hugs	hug	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 like	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bites	amod
30	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 come	nsubj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 children	case
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bites	nmod
33	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 uncomfortable	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 dogs	case
35	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 come	obl
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 dogs	acl:relcl
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 home	case
39	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 know	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 uncomfortable	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hug	participle					vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	present	a hugged dog	the whites of vet's eyes			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient
3	call	participle	a hugged dog not said here	whale eye		often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	vet			uncomfortable property	tree rules
5	not like	present · do-support	most dogs	hugs			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hug=Theme
6	come	present	many bites to children			from dogs	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dog=Initial_Location
7	know	present	hugs = hug	dogs not said here	home		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus

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:9.

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, R8-pos-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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