Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 1
If sitting brings a treat, the dog sits more; if jumping up brings attention, it jumps more.
Who acts: dog · What happens: sit, bring, jump up, jump · To what, where: treat, attention
This is a sentence of the lesson «Training a dog with rewards and patience» 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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 brings | mark |
| 2 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sits | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 treat | det |
| 5 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sits | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sits | nsubj |
| 9 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 jumps | parataxis |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 sits | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 brings | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 brings | mark |
| 13 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 brings | nsubj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 jumping | compound:prt |
| 15 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 jumps | advcl |
| 16 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brings | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 jumps | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 jumps | nsubj |
| 19 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 jumps | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen | present | a treat | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent treat=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit | present | the dog | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | jump up | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | bring a condition, not said to happen | present | attention | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | |||||
| 6 | jump | present | dog | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-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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