Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 0
On the way home from school a scruffy street dog starts trotting behind you.
Who acts: scruffy street dog · What happens: start, trot · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 (scruffy street 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 starts | obl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 home | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 8 | scruffy | scruffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dog | amod |
| 9 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dog | compound |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 starts | nsubj |
| 11 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 starts | xcomp |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 trotting | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a scruffy street dog | the way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | trot | gerund | a scruffy street dog not said here | behind you | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind you=Trajectory |
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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:0.
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 ×3. 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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