Meeting a dog safely, sentence 14
Staring straight into a strange dog's eyes can feel like a threat to the dog.
Who acts: Staring · What happens: stare, feel
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 (Staring), 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 | Staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 feel | csubj |
| 2 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 1 Staring | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Staring | obl |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | aux |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 threat | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 threat | det |
| 13 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 dog | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threat | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | 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 | stare | gerund | into a strange dog's eyes; straight property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | can | Staring | like a threat to the dog | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like threat=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:14.
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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