Meeting a dog safely, sentence 8
Always ask the owner before you pat a dog, and wait for them to say yes.
Who acts: you, arms · What happens: ask, pat, wait, say · To what, where: owner, dog · 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, arms), 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 | Always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 owner | det |
| 4 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obj |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 pat | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pat | nsubj |
| 7 | pat | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ask | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wait | cc |
| 12 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ask | conj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 say | mark |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wait | advcl |
| 17 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 16 say | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the owner | always property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pat | present | you | a dog | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | arms = arm | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
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:8.
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, R5-strong ×2. 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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