Sounds that warn, sentence 13
A dog that growls, shows its teeth or goes stiff is warning you to stay away.
Who acts: dog · What happens: growl, show, go, warn, stay away · To what, where: teeth, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 warning | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 growls | nsubj |
| 4 | growls | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dog | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shows | punct |
| 6 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 growls | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shows | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 goes | cc |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 growls | conj |
| 11 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 goes | xcomp |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 warning | aux |
| 13 | warning | warn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 warning | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stay | mark |
| 16 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 warning | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 stay | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 warning | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl | present | a dog | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | present | a dog not said here | dog's teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | present | a dog not said here | stiff property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | present · progressive | a dog | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | stay away | to-infinitive | a dog not said here | away property | vn exist-47.1 «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:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.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): 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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