Reading a dog's body language, sentence 13
Ears pinned flat back often mean fear; ears pushed stiffly forward can mean the dog is on alert.
Who acts: Ears, dog · What happens: pin back, mean, push, be · To what, where: Ears, fear, alert · 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 (Ears, 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 | Ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | pinned | pin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ears | acl |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 2 pinned | advmod |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 pinned | advmod |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 mean | advmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | parataxis |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 ears | punct |
| 9 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ears | acl |
| 11 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 10 pushed | advmod |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 pushed | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | aux |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 alert | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 alert | cop |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 alert | case |
| 19 | alert | alert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mean | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pin back | participle | Ears not said here | flat property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Ears | fear | often property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Topic | |||
| 3 | push | participle | ears not said here | forward, stiffly property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mean | can | ears | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the dog | alert | 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:13.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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