Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 29
Running or waving your arms at a strange dog can make it chase or jump.
Who acts: Running, arm · What happens: run, wave, make, chase, jump · To what, where: arms, arm
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 (Running, arm), 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 | Running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 make | csubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 waving | cc |
| 3 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Running | conj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waving | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dog | amod |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waving | obl |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 jump | cc |
| 15 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 chase | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | 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 | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | wave | gerund | your arms | at a strange dog | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | can | Running | arm | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | chase | infinitive | arm not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | jump | infinitive | arm not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:29.
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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