Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye, sentence 12

Many old dogs slowly lose their hearing, so hand signals and gentle touches work instead of shouting, and deaf dogs may get a fright if woken suddenly.

Who acts: Many old dogs, hand signals, deaf dogs, vet · What happens: lose, work, get, wake, hear · To what, where: hearing, fright

This is a sentence of the lesson «Old pets: grey muzzles, slow walks and saying goodbye» 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 (Many old dogs, hand signals, deaf dogs, vet), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	nsubj
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 lose	advmod
5	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hearing	nmod:poss
7	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	15 work	advmod
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 signals	compound
11	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 work	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 touches	cc
13	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 touches	amod
14	touches	touch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 signals	conj
15	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	parataxis
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 shouting	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 work	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
21	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dogs	amod
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 get	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 work	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fright	det
26	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 woken	mark
28	woken	wake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 get	advcl
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	28 woken	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lose	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Many old dogs	vet's hearing	slowly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Eventuality
2	work	present	hand signals and gentle touches		instead shouting	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	may	deaf dogs	a fright		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fright=Stimulus
4	wake a condition, not said to happen	participle	deaf dogs not said here		suddenly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	hear		vet			nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=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:328-old-pets-grey-muzzles-slow-walks-and-saying-goodbye.lesson:12.

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 ×2, R6-punct-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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