Meeting a dog safely, sentence 3
If a strange dog runs at you, do not run or scream: «be a tree» — stand still, fold your arms in close, look down at your feet and stay quiet until it loses interest.
Who acts: strange dog, you, hand · What happens: run, not run, scream, be, stand, fold · To what, where: tree, arms, close, interest · 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 (strange dog, you, hand), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 runs | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dog | amod |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 runs | nsubj |
| 5 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | advcl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 runs | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 runs | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 run | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 run | advmod |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 scream | cc |
| 13 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 run | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 tree | punct |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tree | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 scream | appos |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 tree | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 stand | punct |
| 21 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tree | conj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 stand | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fold | punct |
| 24 | fold | fold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 stand | conj |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arms | nmod:poss |
| 26 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fold | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 close | case |
| 28 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fold | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 look | punct |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fold | conj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 look | compound:prt |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 feet | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 feet | nmod:poss |
| 34 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 look | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stay | cc |
| 36 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 look | conj |
| 37 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 stay | xcomp |
| 38 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 40 loses | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 loses | nsubj |
| 40 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 stay | advcl |
| 41 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 loses | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run a condition, not said to happen | present | a strange dog | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not run | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | infinitive | a tree | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stand | infinitive | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | fold | infinitive | your arms | close | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 7 | look down | infinitive | at your feet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | |||||
| 8 | stay | infinitive | quiet property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | lose | present | hand | interest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality |
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:3.
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): 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.
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