Reading a dog's body language, sentence 2
A frightened or angry dog goes stiff and still: its tail may be tucked low or held high and rigid, its ears flat back or stiffly forward, and it may show the whites of its eyes, curl its lip or growl.
Who acts: frightened dog, mouth · What happens: go, tuck, hold, show, curl, growl · To what, where: tail, whites, lip
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 (frightened dog, mouth), 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 | 5 dog | det |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 angry | cc |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 frightened | conj |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goes | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 still | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stiff | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 still | punct |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tucked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tucked | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tucked | aux:pass |
| 15 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 goes | parataxis |
| 16 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 tucked | advmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 held | cc |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tucked | conj |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 held | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rigid | cc |
| 21 | rigid | rigid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 high | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ears | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 flat | nsubj |
| 25 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 15 tucked | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 flat | advmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 forward | cc |
| 28 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 29 forward | advmod |
| 29 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 26 back | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 show | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 show | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 show | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 show | aux |
| 34 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 goes | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 whites | det |
| 36 | whites | white | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 show | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 whites | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 curl | punct |
| 41 | curl | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 show | conj |
| 42 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 lip | nmod:poss |
| 43 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 curl | obj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 growl | cc |
| 45 | growl | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 curl | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a frightened dog | stiff property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tuck | may · passive | mouth's tail | low property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | participle | high property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show | may | mouth | the whites of mouth's eyes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | curl | infinitive | mouth not said here | mouth's lip | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | ||||
| 6 | growl | infinitive | mouth not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:2.
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 ×3, 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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