Reading a dog's body language, sentence 17
A play bow, with the front legs down and the bottom up, is a dog's invitation to play.
Who acts: play bow · What happens: be, play · To what, where: invitation
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 (play bow), 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 | 3 bow | det |
| 2 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bow | compound |
| 3 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invitation | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 down | punct |
| 5 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 down | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 legs | det |
| 7 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legs | amod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 down | nsubj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 bow | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bottom | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bottom | det |
| 12 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 down | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 down | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bow | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 invitation | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invitation | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 19 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 play | mark |
| 21 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 invitation | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 invitation | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a play bow | a dog's invitation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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:17.
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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