Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 18
Before stroking a dog, ask the owner, let the dog sniff your closed hand, and stroke its side or chest rather than reaching over its head.
Who acts: you, dog · What happens: stroke, ask, let, sniff, close, reach · To what, where: dog, owner, closed hand, side, head
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 (you, 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 stroking | mark |
| 2 | stroking | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ask | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stroking | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stroking | punct |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 owner | det |
| 8 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 ask | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sniff | nsubj |
| 13 | sniff | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sniff | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stroke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stroke | cc |
| 19 | stroke | stroke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | conj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 side | nmod:poss |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stroke | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 chest | cc |
| 23 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 side | conj |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 26 reaching | cc |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 rather | fixed |
| 26 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stroke | conj |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reaching | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | gerund | you not said here | a dog | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the owner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sniff | infinitive | the dog | your closed hand | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | stroke | infinitive | you not said here | hand's side or chest | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | reach | gerund | you not said here | hand's head | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over head=Path |
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:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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