Reading a dog's body language, sentence 6
A family dog in Ohio had been gentle for years; when a toddler grabbed its tail it bit her face and she needed stitches.
Who acts: family dog, toddler, Ohio · What happens: be, grab, bite, need · To what, where: tail, face, stitches
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 (family dog, toddler, Ohio), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | compound |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gentle | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Ohio | case |
| 5 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gentle | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 gentle | cop |
| 8 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gentle | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 bit | punct |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 grabbed | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 toddler | det |
| 14 | toddler | toddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grabbed | nsubj |
| 15 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bit | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tail | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grabbed | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bit | nsubj |
| 19 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gentle | parataxis |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bit | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 needed | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 needed | nsubj |
| 24 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bit | conj |
| 25 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 needed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gentle | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | a family dog in Ohio | year | gentle property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grab | past | a toddler | toddler's tail | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bite | past | toddler | Ohio's face | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 4 | need | past | Ohio | stitches | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stitch=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:6.
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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