Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 9
Any dog can bite if it is scared, hurt, or guarding its food or puppies, however friendly it looked a moment before.
Who acts: dog · What happens: bite, be, hurt, guard, look · To what, where: food
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), 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bite | aux |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 scared | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scared | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scared | cop |
| 8 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bite | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurt | punct |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 scared | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guarding | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 guarding | cc |
| 13 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 hurt | conj |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 food | nmod:poss |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guarding | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 puppies | cc |
| 17 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 food | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friendly | punct |
| 19 | however | however | ADV | _ | 20 friendly | advmod |
| 20 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 guarding | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 friendly | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 before | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 looked | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | 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 | bite | can | any dog | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | dog | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | participle | dog not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | guard | gerund | dog not said here | dog's food or puppies | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | look | past | dog | before property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:9.
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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