Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 13

A wagging tail does not always mean friendly: a stiff, high wag with a stiff body can mean danger, while a relaxed dog wags its whole wiggly body.

Who acts: wagging tail, stiff high wag, relaxed dog · What happens: wag, not mean, mean · To what, where: danger, whole wiggly body

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 (wagging tail, stiff high wag, relaxed 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tail	det
2	wagging	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tail	amod
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 mean	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mean	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 mean	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wag	det
11	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wag	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wag	punct
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wag	amod
14	wag	wag	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mean	nsubj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 body	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 body	det
17	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 body	amod
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wag	nmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 mean	aux
20	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mean	parataxis
21	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mean	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wags	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 wags	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dog	det
25	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dog	amod
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wags	nsubj
27	wags	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mean	advcl
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 body	nmod:poss
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 body	amod
30	wiggly	wiggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 body	amod
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wags	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wag	gerund				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not mean	present · do-support	a wagging tail		always, friendly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	can	a stiff high wag with a stiff body	danger		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent danger=Topic
4	wag	present	a relaxed dog	dog's whole wiggly body		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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:13.

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 ×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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