Meeting a dog safely, sentence 10
Let a dog sniff you first; sniffing is how a dog says hello.
Who acts: you, dog · What happens: let, sniff, be · To what, where: dog, you
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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | sniff | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sniff | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sniff | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 sniffing | punct |
| 8 | sniffing | sniff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | cop |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 says | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sniffing | conj |
| 14 | hello | hello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | a dog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sniff | infinitive | a dog not said here | you | first property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | sniff | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | 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:10.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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