Reading a dog's body language, sentence 11
A tail tucked between the back legs usually means the dog is frightened.
Who acts: tail, dog · What happens: tuck, mean, be · To what, where: tail, back legs · 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 (tail, 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 tail | det |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 3 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tail | acl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legs | det |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 legs | compound |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tucked | obl |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 means | advmod |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 frightened | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 frightened | cop |
| 13 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | participle | a tail not said here | the back legs | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between leg=Destination | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a tail | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the dog | frighten property | 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:everyday:021-reading-a-dog.lesson:11.
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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