Meeting a dog safely, sentence 0
Before you touch any dog, even a friendly-looking one, ask the owner «May I pat your dog?» and wait for a yes; if there is no owner, do not touch it.
Who acts: you, I, owner · What happens: touch, look, ask, pat, wait, be · To what, where: dog, owner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Meeting a dog safely» 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 (you, I, owner), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 touch | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 touch | nsubj |
| 3 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | advcl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 touch | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friendly | det |
| 9 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | root |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 friendly | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 one | acl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dog | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owner | det |
| 16 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obj |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 pat | punct |
| 18 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 pat | aux |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pat | nsubj |
| 20 | pat | pat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | parataxis |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dog | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pat | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 pat | punct |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 wait | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wait | cc |
| 26 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 yes | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 is | det |
| 29 | yes | yes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wait | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 yes | punct |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 is | mark |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 is | expl |
| 33 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 wait | advcl |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 owner | det |
| 35 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 is | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 touch | punct |
| 37 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 touch | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 touch | advmod |
| 39 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wait | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 touch | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | present | you | any dog | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the owner | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pat in a quote | may | I | your dog | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | wait | infinitive | for yes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | no owner | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not touch | infinitive · do-support | owner | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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:022-meeting-a-dog-safely.lesson:0.
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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