Reading a dog's body language, sentence 7

A boy in Texas kept patting a dog that had gone stiff, licked its lips and showed the whites of its eyes; it snapped and bit his hand.

Who acts: boy, dog, toddler · What happens: keep, pat, go, lick, show, snap · To what, where: dog, lips, whites, hand

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 (boy, dog, toddler), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	patting	pat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 patting	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gone	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 dog	acl:relcl
12	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gone	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 licked	punct
14	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lips	nmod:poss
16	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 licked	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 showed	cc
18	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 licked	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 whites	det
20	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 showed	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 whites	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 snapped	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 snapped	nsubj
26	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bit	cc
28	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 snapped	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a boy in Texas			tree rules
2	pat	gerund	a boy in Texas not said here	a dog		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer
3	go	past · perfect	a dog		stiff property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lick	past		toddler's lips		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source
5	show	past		the whites of toddler's eyes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient
6	snap	past	toddler			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bite	past	toddler not said here	boy's hand		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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:7.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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