Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 14

A dog can learn a way to ask for things, such as ringing a bell at the door to go out for a wee, and some dogs are being taught to press buttons that play recorded words.

Who acts: dog, things, dogs, buttons · What happens: learn, ask, ring, go out, teach, press · To what, where: way, bell, door, dogs, buttons, recorded words

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, things, dogs, buttons), 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	4 learn	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 things	case
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ask	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ringing	punct
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	14 ringing	mark
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 things	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bell	det
16	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ringing	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ringing	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ringing	advcl
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 wee	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wee	det
25	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 taught	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 taught	cc
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 dogs	det
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 taught	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 taught	aux:pass
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 taught	aux:pass
32	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 learn	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 press	mark
34	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 taught	xcomp
35	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 press	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 play	nsubj
37	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 buttons	acl:relcl
38	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 words	amod
39	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 play	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	can	a dog	a way			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	a dog not said here	a way not said here		for things	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ring	gerund	things not said here	a bell	the door		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
4	go out	to-infinitive	things not said here			for a wee; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	teach speech: other	present · passive		some dogs			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
6	press	to-infinitive	some dogs not said here	buttons			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme
7	play	present	buttons	recorded words			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
8	record	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:14.

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 ×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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