Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 28
If a dog runs at you, standing still with your arms by your sides and calling for the owner is safest.
Who acts: dog, standing · What happens: run, stand, call, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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, standing), 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 | _ | 4 runs | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 safest | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 runs | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 standing | punct |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 safest | csubj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 standing | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arms | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 standing | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 sides | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sides | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 arms | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 calling | cc |
| 17 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 standing | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 owner | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 owner | det |
| 20 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 calling | obl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 safest | cop |
| 22 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 safest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run a condition, not said to happen | present | a dog | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | still | with your arms by your sides | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | for the owner | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for owner=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | standing | safe property | tree rules |
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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:28.
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): no change. 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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