Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 13
Always ask the owner before stroking a dog, and let the dog sniff you first.
Who acts: you, dog · What happens: ask, stroke, let, sniff · To what, where: owner, dog, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 (you, 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 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 owner | det |
| 4 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obj |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 stroking | mark |
| 6 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ask | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stroking | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ask | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sniff | nsubj |
| 14 | sniff | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 sniff | obj |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 sniff | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the owner | always property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | |||
| 2 | stroke | gerund | you not said here | a dog | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sniff | infinitive | the dog | you | first property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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