Reading a dog's body language, sentence 5

For example, a dog lying under a table with its ears back, licking its lips and showing the whites of its eyes is telling you: «Leave me alone.»

Who acts: dog · What happens: lie, lick, show, tell, leave · To what, where: table, lips, whites, you, 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 (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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 telling	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 telling	nsubj
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dog	acl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 ears	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ears	nmod:poss
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 table	nmod
13	back	back	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 licking	punct
15	licking	lick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lying	advcl
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lips	nmod:poss
17	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 licking	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 showing	cc
19	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 licking	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 whites	det
21	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 showing	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 eyes	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 whites	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 telling	aux
26	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 telling	iobj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Leave	punct
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 Leave	punct
30	Leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 telling	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 Leave	obj
32	alone	alone	ADV	_	30 Leave	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 telling	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	a dog not said here			a table with table's ears		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location
2	lick	gerund	a dog not said here	table's lips				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source
3	show	gerund	a dog not said here	the whites of lip's eyes				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	a dog		you		for example	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	leave in a quote	infinitive		a dog = dog			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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:5.

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): 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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