Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 15
A dog warns before it bites: it yawns, licks its lips, turns its head away, shows the whites of its eyes, tucks its tail, freezes and then growls.
Who acts: dog, DNA · What happens: warn, bite, yawn, lick, turn away, show · To what, where: lips, head, whites, tail
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 (dog, DNA), 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 | 3 warns | nsubj |
| 3 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 bites | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bites | nsubj |
| 6 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warns | advcl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 yawns | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 yawns | nsubj |
| 9 | yawns | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warns | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 licks | punct |
| 11 | licks | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 yawns | conj |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 licks | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turns | punct |
| 15 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 yawns | conj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turns | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 turns | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shows | punct |
| 20 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 yawns | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 whites | det |
| 22 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shows | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 whites | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tucks | punct |
| 27 | tucks | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 yawns | conj |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 tail | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tucks | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 freezes | punct |
| 31 | freezes | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 yawns | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 growls | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 growls | advmod |
| 34 | growls | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 yawns | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present | a dog | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bite | present | DNA | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | yawn | present | DNA | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lick | present | DNA not said here | DNA's lips | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | ||||
| 5 | turn away | present | DNA not said here | DNA's head | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 6 | show | present | DNA not said here | the whites of DNA's eyes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | tuck | present | DNA not said here | DNA's tail | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 8 | freeze | present | DNA not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | growl | present | DNA not said here | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:15.
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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