Reading a dog's body language, sentence 12
A tail held high and stiff, even if it wags, can mean the dog is tense or excited, not friendly.
Who acts: body, tail, dog · What happens: hold, wag, mean, be, not be · To what, where: tail · 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 (body, 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 | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tail | acl |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 held | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stiff | cc |
| 6 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 high | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wags | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 wags | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 wags | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wags | nsubj |
| 11 | wags | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | aux |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tense | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tense | cop |
| 18 | tense | tense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mean | ccomp |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 excited | cc |
| 20 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tense | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 friendly | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 friendly | advmod |
| 23 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tense | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | a tail not said here | high property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wag a condition, not said to happen | present | body | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | can | a tail | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the dog | tense property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the dog not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | not be | the dog not said here | 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:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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