Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 13
Dogs tend to wag more to the right when happy and more to the left when worried, and a stiff, high, fast wag can mean tension.
Who acts: Dogs, stiff high fast wag · What happens: tend, wag, mean · To what, where: right, tension
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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 (Dogs, stiff high fast wag), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tend | nsubj |
| 2 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 wag | mark |
| 4 | wag | wag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tend | xcomp |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 wag | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 right | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 right | det |
| 8 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wag | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 happy | advmod |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wag | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 worried | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 worried | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 left | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 left | det |
| 15 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 worried | advmod |
| 17 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 happy | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stiff | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mean | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wag | det |
| 21 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wag | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 high | punct |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wag | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wag | punct |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wag | amod |
| 26 | wag | wag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mean | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 mean | aux |
| 28 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tend | conj |
| 29 | tension | tension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mean | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | present | Dogs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wag | to-infinitive | Dogs not said here | the right | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to right=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | mean | can | a stiff high fast wag | tension | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tension=Topic |
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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:13.
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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