Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 12
In its first few months a puppy should meet many people, animals, sounds and things in a calm way; this is called socialisation, and a dog that met few things when young may be fearful later.
Who acts: puppy, dog · What happens: meet, call, be · To what, where: many people, calm way, this, few things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (puppy, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 months | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 months | nmod:poss |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 months | amod |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 months | amod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 meet | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 puppy | det |
| 7 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meet | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 meet | aux |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 meet | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 animals | punct |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 people | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sounds | punct |
| 15 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 people | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 things | cc |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 people | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 20 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 way | amod |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meet | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 meet | punct |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | aux:pass |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 meet | parataxis |
| 26 | socialisation | socialisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dog | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dog | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dog | det |
| 30 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 socialisation | conj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 met | nsubj |
| 32 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 dog | acl:relcl |
| 33 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 things | amod |
| 34 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 met | obj |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 young | advmod |
| 36 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 fearful | advmod |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 fearful | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 fearful | cop |
| 39 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meet | advcl |
| 40 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 fearful | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | should | a puppy | many people and animals and sounds and things | a calm way | month | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | a dog | few things | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | may | a puppy not said here | fearful, late property | tree rules |
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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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