Reading a dog's body language, sentence 16
Hair standing up along a dog's back means it is upset, scared or very excited.
Who acts: Hair · What happens: stand up, mean, be · To what, where: back · 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 (Hair), 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 | Hair | Hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 2 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Hair | acl |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 standing | advmod |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 standing | obl |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 upset | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 upset | cop |
| 12 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scared | punct |
| 14 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 upset | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 excited | cc |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 excited | advmod |
| 17 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 upset | conj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | stand up | gerund | Hair not said here | a dog's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along back=Location | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Hair | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Hair | upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Hair not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | Hair 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:16.
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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