Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 12
Dogs have a special eyebrow muscle, which wolves mostly lack, that lifts the inner eyebrow to make puppy eyes.
Who acts: Dogs, wolves, special eyebrow muscle · What happens: have, lack, lift, make · To what, where: special eyebrow muscle, inner eyebrow, puppy eyes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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, wolves, special eyebrow muscle), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 muscle | det |
| 4 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 muscle | amod |
| 5 | eyebrow | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 muscle | compound |
| 6 | muscle | muscle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lack | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lack | obj |
| 9 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lack | nsubj |
| 10 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 11 lack | advmod |
| 11 | lack | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 muscle | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifts | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lifts | nsubj |
| 14 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 muscle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eyebrow | det |
| 16 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyebrow | amod |
| 17 | eyebrow | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifts | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lifts | advcl |
| 20 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eyes | compound |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Dogs | a special eyebrow muscle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lack | present | wolves | a special eyebrow muscle | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lift | present | a special eyebrow muscle | the inner eyebrow | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyebrow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | a special eyebrow muscle not said here | puppy eyes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product |
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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:12.
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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