Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 14
Even young puppies can follow a human pointing finger, and dogs see blues and yellows well but not reds and greens.
Who acts: young puppies, dogs · What happens: follow, see · To what, where: human pointing finger, blues
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 (young puppies, dogs), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 puppies | advmod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puppies | amod |
| 3 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | aux |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 finger | det |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 finger | amod |
| 8 | pointing | pointing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finger | compound |
| 9 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 12 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 follow | conj |
| 14 | blues | blue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 yellows | cc |
| 16 | yellows | yellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blues | conj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 see | advmod |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 reds | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 reds | advmod |
| 20 | reds | red | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 blues | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 greens | cc |
| 22 | greens | green | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reds | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 follow | 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 | follow | can | young puppies | a human pointing finger | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | dogs | blues and yellows but reds and greens | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blue=Stimulus |
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:14.
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. 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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