Reading a dog's body language, sentence 15
A growl, a curled lip or bared teeth are warnings that mean «back off».
Who acts: growl, warnings · What happens: curl, bare, be, mean · To what, where: warnings
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 (growl, warnings), 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 growl | det |
| 2 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 warnings | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lip | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lip | det |
| 5 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lip | amod |
| 6 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 growl | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 teeth | cc |
| 8 | bared | bare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 teeth | amod |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lip | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 warnings | cop |
| 11 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 warnings | acl:relcl |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 mean | ccomp |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 back | compound:prt |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 warnings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl | participle | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bare | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a growl and a curled lip or bared teeth | warnings | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | warnings | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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