Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 6
If a strange dog comes running at you, do not run or scream, because running makes you look like prey.
Who acts: strange dog, you · What happens: come, run, not run, scream, make, look · To what, where: you
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 | 12 run | advcl |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 comes | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 running | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 run | advmod |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 scream | cc |
| 14 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 makes | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 makes | mark |
| 17 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 makes | nsubj |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 makes | obj |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 prey | case |
| 22 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | a strange dog not said here | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not run | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | make | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | look | infinitive | you not said here | like prey | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:6.
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): no change. 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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