Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 19
If a strange dog comes at you, do not run or scream; stand still like a tree, arms folded in, look away and then back away slowly; if knocked down, curl into a ball and cover your neck and ears.
Who acts: strange dog, you · What happens: come, not run, scream, stand, fold, look away · To what, where: arms, ball, neck
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 (strange dog, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dog | amod |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 comes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 run | advmod |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 scream | cc |
| 13 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stand | punct |
| 15 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | parataxis |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 stand | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stand | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arms | punct |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stand | conj |
| 22 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 arms | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 folded | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | parataxis |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 look | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 then | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 away | conj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 away | advmod |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 look | advmod |
| 31 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 29 back | advmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 knocked | punct |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 knocked | mark |
| 34 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 look | advcl |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 34 knocked | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 curl | punct |
| 37 | curl | curl | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 knocked | parataxis |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 ball | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 ball | det |
| 40 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 curl | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 curl | cc |
| 42 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 curl | conj |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 neck | nmod:poss |
| 44 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cover | obj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 ears | cc |
| 46 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 neck | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | a strange dog | at you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Location | ||||
| 2 | not run | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stand | infinitive | still | like a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fold | participle | arms not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | look away | infinitive | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | knock down a condition, not said to happen | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | curl | infinitive | a ball | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination | |||||
| 9 | cover | infinitive | your neck and ears | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme neck=Destination |
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:19.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, 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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