Sounds that warn, sentence 14
If a dog growls at you, stand still like a tree, do not stare into its eyes, and back away slowly once it calms.
Who acts: dog, you, tree · What happens: growl, stand, not stare, calm
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, you, tree), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 growls | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 growls | nsubj |
| 4 | growls | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stand | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 growls | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stand | punct |
| 8 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 stare | conj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 stand | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stand | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stare | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stare | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 stare | advmod |
| 16 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stare | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 away | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 away | cc |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 stare | advmod |
| 24 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 16 stare | advmod |
| 25 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 27 calms | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 calms | nsubj |
| 27 | calms | calm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 slowly | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | growl a condition, not said to happen | present | a dog | at you | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | you not said here | still | like a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not stare | imperative · do-support | you not said here | into tree's eyes; away, slowly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | calm | present | tree | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: 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:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:14.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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