Reading a dog's body language, sentence 0

Dogs cannot talk, but they tell us how they feel all the time with their tail, ears, mouth, eyes and whole body.

Who acts: Dogs · What happens: not talk, tell, feel · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a dog's body language» 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 (Dogs), 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	conj
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 feel	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feel	nsubj
12	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feel	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 tail	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tail	nmod:poss
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feel	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ears	punct
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tail	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mouth	punct
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eyes	punct
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 time	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 body	cc
26	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 body	amod
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eyes	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	can	Dogs				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	Dogs = dog	us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	feel	present	Dogs = dog		time	with Dogs's tail and ears	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:everyday:021-reading-a-dog.lesson:0.

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, 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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