Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds, sentence 11
Before you pat a stranger's dog, ask the owner, then let the dog sniff your hand before you stroke its side.
Who acts: you, dog · What happens: pat, ask, let, sniff, stroke · To what, where: dog, owner, hand, side
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 pat | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pat | nsubj |
| 3 | pat | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stranger | det |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 stranger | case |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pat | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pat | punct |
| 9 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 owner | det |
| 11 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ask | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 let | advmod |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 ask | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sniff | nsubj |
| 17 | sniff | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sniff | obj |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 stroke | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 stroke | nsubj |
| 22 | stroke | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sniff | advcl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stroke | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | present | you | a stranger's dog | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the owner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | then | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sniff | infinitive | the dog | your hand | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stroke | present | you | hand's side | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer |
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:228-parks-and-playgrounds.lesson:11.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/228-parks-and-playgrounds/11/