Walking on the pavement and crossing roads, sentence 7
A dog tied up alone outside a shop may be nervous and snap, so you do not pat it without its owner.
Who acts: dog, you · What happens: tie up, be, snap, not pat · To what, where: dog
This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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 (dog, you), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nervous | nsubj |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dog | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 tied | compound:prt |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 tied | advmod |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 8 shop | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shop | det |
| 8 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 nervous | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nervous | cop |
| 11 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 snap | cc |
| 13 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nervous | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pat | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 pat | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 pat | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pat | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 pat | advmod |
| 19 | pat | pat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nervous | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pat | obj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 owner | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 owner | nmod:poss |
| 23 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pat | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 nervous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | participle | a dog not said here | outside a shop; alone property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | may | a dog | nervous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | snap | infinitive | a dog not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not pat | present · do-support | you | dog | without dog's owner | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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