Meeting a dog safely, sentence 6
A girl in Sydney ran up to a dog tied outside a shop and reached over its head; the frightened dog bit her arm, and she needed a doctor.
Who acts: girl, dog, frightened dog · What happens: run up, tie, reach, bite, need · To what, where: shop, head, arm, doctor
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 (girl, dog, frightened 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dog | acl |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 10 tied | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shop | det |
| 13 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tied | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reached | cc |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 arm | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dog | det |
| 21 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dog | amod |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bit | nsubj |
| 23 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arm | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bit | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 needed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 needed | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 needed | nsubj |
| 29 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 bit | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 doctor | det |
| 31 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 needed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | a girl in Sydney | to a dog result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dog=Result | ||||
| 2 | tie | participle | a dog not said here | a shop | outside property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | reach | past | a girl in Sydney not said here | hand's head | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over head=Path | ||||
| 4 | bite | past | the frightened dog | girl's arm | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 5 | need | past | girl | a doctor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=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:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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