Wolves and dogs, sentence 13
A loose wide tail wag usually means a happy dog, but a stiff high wag can mean the dog is tense.
Who acts: loose wide tail wag, stiff high wag, dog · What happens: mean, be · To what, where: happy dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (loose wide tail wag, stiff high wag, 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 | 5 wag | det |
| 2 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wag | amod |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wag | amod |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wag | compound |
| 5 | wag | wag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 means | advmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mean | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 mean | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wag | det |
| 14 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wag | amod |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wag | amod |
| 16 | wag | wag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mean | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 mean | aux |
| 18 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 means | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tense | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tense | cop |
| 22 | tense | tense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mean | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a loose wide tail wag | a happy dog | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | |||
| 2 | mean | can | a stiff high wag | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the dog | tense property | tree rules |
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: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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/13/