Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 1

It looks friendly, but you do not know it and it does not know you, so the safe rule is simple: never touch a strange animal.

Who acts: dog, you, safe rule · What happens: look, not know, be, not touch · To what, where: dog, you, strange animal

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 (dog, you, safe rule), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 know	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looks	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 simple	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 simple	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rule	det
20	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rule	amod
21	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 simple	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 simple	cop
23	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 touch	punct
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 touch	advmod
26	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 looks	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 animal	det
28	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 animal	amod
29	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 touch	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	dog		friendly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not know	present · do-support	you	dog		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	not know	present · do-support	dog	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	is	present	the safe rule		simple property	tree rules
5	not touch	infinitive		a strange animal		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Co-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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:1.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/1/