Reading a dog's body language, sentence 3

A wagging tail does not always mean a happy dog; a stiff, high tail that flicks fast can mean the dog is tense and ready to act.

Who acts: wagging tail, stiff high tail, dog · What happens: wag, not mean, flick, mean, be, act · To what, where: happy dog · 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 (wagging tail, stiff high tail, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tail	det
2	wagging	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 tail	amod
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 mean	advmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 mean	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tail	det
13	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tail	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tail	punct
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tail	amod
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mean	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 flicks	nsubj
18	flicks	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tail	acl:relcl
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 flicks	advmod
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 mean	aux
21	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mean	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tense	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tense	cop
25	tense	tense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mean	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ready	cc
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tense	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 act	mark
29	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ready	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wag	gerund				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not mean	present · do-support	a wagging tail	a happy dog	always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
3	flick	present	a stiff high tail		fast property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mean	can	a stiff high tail			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the dog		tense property	tree rules
6	be		the dog not said here			tree rules
7	act	to-infinitive	the dog not said here			vn act-114-1-1 «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:3.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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