Vocabulary in context, sentence 9
«The dog's tail drooped» is not just about a tail moving down: it shows the dog is sad or tired.
Who acts: tail, it, dog · What happens: droop, not be, show, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» of the english 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 (tail, it, 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 drooped | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dog | case |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drooped | nsubj |
| 6 | drooped | droop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moving | csubj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 drooped | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 moving | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 moving | advmod |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 about | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 moving | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tail | det |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moving | nsubj |
| 14 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 moving | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 shows | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shows | nsubj |
| 18 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 moving | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sad | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sad | cop |
| 22 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shows | ccomp |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 tired | cc |
| 24 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sad | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 moving | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | droop in a quote | past | the dog's tail | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | a tail | about, down, move property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | present | it | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the dog | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the dog not said here | tree rules |
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:english:020-vocabulary-in-context.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): no change. 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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