Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 6

A clicker makes a short sharp click that marks the exact moment the dog did the right thing, and the treat follows; zoos use clicker training so animals calmly join in health checks.

Who acts: clicker, short sharp click, dog, treat, zoos, animals · What happens: make, mark, do, follow, use, join · To what, where: short sharp click, right thing, clicker training

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 (clicker, short sharp click, dog, treat), 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 clicker	det
2	clicker	clicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 click	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 click	amod
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 click	amod
7	click	click	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 marks	nsubj
9	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 click	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moment	det
11	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moment	amod
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marks	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 moment	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 follows	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 follows	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 treat	det
22	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 follows	nsubj
23	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 use	punct
25	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 use	nsubj
26	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis
27	clicker	clicker	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 training	compound
28	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 use	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	32 join	advmod
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 join	nsubj
31	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	32 join	advmod
32	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 use	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 checks	case
34	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 checks	compound
35	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 join	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a clicker	a short sharp click			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset click=Product
2	mark	present	a short sharp click		moment		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	the dog	the right thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	follow	present	the treat				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	use	present	zoos	clicker training			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent training=Patient
6	join	present	animals			in health checks; calmly property	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in check=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:6.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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