Reading a dog's body language, sentence 1
A relaxed, friendly dog has a loose, wiggly body, a soft open mouth and a tail that wags in wide, easy sweeps.
Who acts: relaxed friendly dog, tail · What happens: have, wag · To what, where: loose wiggly body
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 (relaxed friendly dog, tail), 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 | 5 dog | det |
| 2 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 relaxed | punct |
| 4 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 8 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 body | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loose | punct |
| 10 | wiggly | wiggly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 body | amod |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mouth | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mouth | det |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouth | amod |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouth | amod |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 body | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tail | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tail | det |
| 19 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 body | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wags | nsubj |
| 21 | wags | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tail | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sweeps | case |
| 23 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sweeps | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wide | punct |
| 25 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sweeps | amod |
| 26 | sweeps | sweep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wags | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a relaxed friendly dog | a loose wiggly body and a soft open mouth and a tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wag | present | a tail | in wide easy sweeps | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sweep=Topic |
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:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/21-reading-a-dog/1/