Reading a dog's body language, sentence 20
Most dogs that bite children are dogs they know, at home or at a friend's house.
Who acts: Most dogs, Dogs · What happens: bite, be, know · To what, where: children, 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 dogs, Dogs), 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 | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dogs | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bite | obj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dogs | cop |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dogs | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 house | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 friend | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 home | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dogs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | Most dogs | children | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Most dogs | dogs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | present | Dogs = dog | dogs not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
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:20.
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): 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.
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