Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 5
A stiff body, raised hair, a growl, a curled lip or a hard stare from a dog, or flat ears, a puffed tail and an arched back on a cat, all say «go away».
Who acts: stiff body · What happens: raise, curl, puff, arch, say, go away · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stiff body), 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 body | det |
| 2 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 body | amod |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 say | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hair | punct |
| 5 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hair | amod |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 body | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 growl | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 growl | det |
| 9 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 body | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lip | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lip | det |
| 12 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lip | amod |
| 13 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 body | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 stare | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stare | det |
| 16 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stare | amod |
| 17 | stare | stare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lip | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 dog | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stare | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ears | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 ears | cc |
| 23 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ears | amod |
| 24 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 body | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tail | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tail | det |
| 27 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tail | amod |
| 28 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 body | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 back | cc |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 back | det |
| 31 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 back | amod |
| 32 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tail | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 cat | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 cat | det |
| 35 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 back | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 body | punct |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 say | nsubj |
| 38 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 40 go | punct |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 say | ccomp |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 go | advmod |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 go | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | curl | participle | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | puff | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 4 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | a stiff body and raised hair and a growl and a curled lip or a hard stare from a dog or flat ears and a puffed tail and a arched back on a cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | go away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:5.
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, 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.
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