Wolves and dogs, sentence 11
A dog's nose is wet with a thin layer of mucus that catches smell particles, and every dog's nose print is unique.
Who acts: nose, thin layer, nose print, dog · What happens: be, catch, print · To what, where: smell particles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» 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 (nose, thin layer, nose print, dog), 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 nose | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dog | case |
| 4 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wet | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wet | cop |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 layer | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 layer | det |
| 9 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 layer | amod |
| 10 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wet | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mucus | case |
| 12 | mucus | mucus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 layer | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 catches | nsubj |
| 14 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 layer | acl:relcl |
| 15 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 particles | compound |
| 16 | particles | particle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 catches | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 unique | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 unique | cc |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 print | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 dog | case |
| 22 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 print | compound |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 unique | nsubj | ||
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 unique | cop |
| 25 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wet | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wet | 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 | is | present | a dog's nose | with a thin layer of mucus; wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | a thin layer of mucus | smell particles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | every dog's nose print | unique property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | every dog | nom print «communication transitive»: poss=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:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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