Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 3

A dog cannot say «leave me alone», so it says it with its body: it yawns, licks its lips, turns its head away, shows the whites of its eyes, tucks its tail, goes stiff and still, and only then growls.

Who acts: dog · What happens: not say, leave, say, yawn, lick, turn away · To what, where: dog, language, lips, head, whites, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	5 say	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 »	advmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 says	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 body	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 body	nmod:poss
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 says	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 yawns	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 yawns	nsubj
21	yawns	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 licks	punct
23	licks	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 yawns	conj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lips	nmod:poss
25	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 licks	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turns	punct
27	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 yawns	conj
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	27 turns	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	27 turns	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 shows	punct
32	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 yawns	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 whites	det
34	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 shows	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 eyes	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 whites	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tucks	punct
39	tucks	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 yawns	conj
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 tail	nmod:poss
41	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tucks	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 goes	punct
43	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 shows	conj
44	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 goes	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 still	cc
46	still	still	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 stiff	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 growls	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 growls	cc
49	only	only	ADV	_	51 growls	advmod
50	then	the	ADV	_	51 growls	advmod
51	growls	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 yawns	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can	a dog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave in a quote	infinitive		a dog = dog		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	dog	language	with dog's body	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme with body=Manner
4	yawn	present	dog			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lick	present	dog not said here	dog's lips		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source
6	turn away	present	dog not said here	dog's head	away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
7	show	present	dog not said here	the whites of dog's eyes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient
8	tuck	present	dog not said here	dog's tail		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
9	go	present	dog not said here		stiff property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	growl	present	dog not said here		the property	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:3.

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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