Reading a dog's body language, sentence 18

Most dog bites happen with dogs the child already knows, often their own family dog; even a friendly dog may bite when it is scared, hurt or annoyed.

Who acts: Most dog bites, child, friendly dog · What happens: happen, know, bite, be · To what, where: dogs

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 (Most dog bites, child, friendly 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 bites	amod
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bites	compound
3	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happen	nsubj
4	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happen	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knows	nsubj
9	already	already	ADV	_	10 knows	advmod
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dogs	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knows	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	16 dog	advmod
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dog	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dog	amod
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	compound
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dogs	appos
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bite	punct
18	even	even	ADV	_	21 dog	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dog	det
20	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dog	amod
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bite	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bite	aux
23	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happen	parataxis
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 scared	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 scared	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 scared	cop
27	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bite	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hurt	punct
29	hurt	hurt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 scared	conj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 annoyed	cc
31	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 scared	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Most dog bites		with dogs	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	the child	dogs not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
3	bite	may	a friendly dog			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	child		scared property	tree rules
5	be		child not said here			tree rules
6	be		child 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:18.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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