Reading a dog's body language, sentence 14
Showing the whites of the eyes, lip licking and yawning when not tired are signs of a worried dog.
Who acts: Showing · What happens: show, yawn, be · To what, where: whites, signs
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 (Showing), 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 | Showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 signs | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whites | det |
| 3 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Showing | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whites | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 licking | punct |
| 8 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 licking | compound |
| 9 | licking | licking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 yawning | cc |
| 11 | yawning | yawn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 licking | conj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 tired | mark |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 tired | advmod |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 yawning | advcl |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 signs | cop |
| 16 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dog | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 19 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dog | amod |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 signs | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 signs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | gerund | the whites of the eyes and lip licking | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | yawn | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Showing | signs | of a worried dog | 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:14.
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. 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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