Meeting a dog safely, sentence 1

Then let the dog come to you: stand a little sideways, keep your hand low and still, and let it sniff you, because sniffing is how a dog says hello.

Who acts: you, dog · What happens: let, come, stand, keep, sniff, be · To what, where: dog, you, hand · 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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct
9	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 come	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 little	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sideways	amod
12	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	9 stand	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
14	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	conj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
17	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 keep	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
19	still	still	ADV	_	17 low	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 sniff	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 says	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 says	mark
28	sniffing	sniff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 says	csubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 says	cop
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 says	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dog	det
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 says	nsubj
33	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sniff	advcl
34	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 says	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the dog		then		tree rules
2	come	infinitive	the dog not said here		you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
3	stand	infinitive					sideways property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	infinitive		your hand			low property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
5	let	infinitive		dog				tree rules
6	sniff	infinitive	dog not said here	you				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	sniff	gerund						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	be speech: assert	present	a dog				say property	tree rules

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:1.

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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/22-meeting-a-dog-safely/1/