Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 7
Stand still like a tree, fold your arms in, look away and wait; then back away slowly.
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, fold in, look away, wait · To what, where: arms
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), 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 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 1 Stand | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stand | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fold | punct |
| 7 | fold | fold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stand | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fold | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fold | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 fold | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wait | cc |
| 15 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 back | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 back | advmod |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 back | advmod |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 18 back | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | still | like a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fold in | infinitive | you not said here | your arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look away | infinitive | you not said here | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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