Reading a dog's body language, sentence 9
A loose, wiggly body and a soft, open mouth usually mean a relaxed, friendly dog.
Who acts: loose wiggly body · What happens: mean · To what, where: relaxed friendly dog
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 (loose wiggly body), 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 | 5 body | det |
| 2 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 body | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 loose | punct |
| 4 | wiggly | wiggly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 body | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mouth | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mouth | det |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mouth | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 soft | punct |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mouth | amod |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 body | conj |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 13 mean | advmod |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 15 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 relaxed | punct |
| 17 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mean | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | 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 | mean | present | a loose wiggly body and a soft open mouth | a relaxed friendly dog | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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