Training a dog with rewards and patience, sentence 9
Old dogs can learn new tricks, and training keeps an older dog's brain busy and happy.
Who acts: Old dogs, training · What happens: learn, keep · To what, where: new tricks, brain
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 (Old dogs, training), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | aux |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tricks | amod |
| 6 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learn | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keeps | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keeps | cc |
| 9 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeps | nsubj |
| 10 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learn | conj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 dog | amod |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brain | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 dog | case |
| 15 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeps | obj |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 keeps | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 happy | cc |
| 18 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 busy | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | can | Old dogs | new tricks | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | training | a older dog's brain | busy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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:9.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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