Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 7
A puppy jumps up at visitors because jumping got attention before, and even shouting can be a reward, because it is still attention; turning away and rewarding four paws on the floor works better.
Who acts: puppy, turning · What happens: jump up, jump, get, shout, be, turn away · To what, where: attention, reward, four paws, floor
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, turning), 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 puppy | det |
| 2 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumps | nsubj |
| 3 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 jumps | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 visitors | case |
| 6 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jumps | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 got | mark |
| 8 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumps | advcl |
| 10 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reward | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reward | cc |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 shouting | advmod |
| 15 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 reward | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 reward | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 reward | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 reward | det |
| 19 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 attention | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 25 attention | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 attention | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 attention | cop |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 attention | advmod |
| 25 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reward | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 turning | punct |
| 27 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 works | csubj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 turning | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rewarding | cc |
| 30 | rewarding | reward | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 turning | conj |
| 31 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 paws | nummod |
| 32 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rewarding | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 floor | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 floor | det |
| 35 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rewarding | obl |
| 36 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumps | parataxis |
| 37 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 works | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | present | a puppy | at visitors | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at visitor=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get | past | attention | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | can | a reward | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | puppy | attention | still | tree rules | |||
| 7 | turn away | gerund | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | reward | gerund | four paws | the floor | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent paw=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | work | present | turning | well property | vn employment-95.3 «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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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