The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 28
Herding dogs like sheepdogs may nip at running children's heels from instinct; the owner should call the dog off.
Who acts: Herding dogs, owner · What happens: herd, nip, run, call off · To what, where: running heels, dog
This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» 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 (Herding dogs, owner), 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 | Herding | herd | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nip | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 sheepdogs | case |
| 4 | sheepdogs | sheepdog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dogs | nmod |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 nip | aux |
| 6 | nip | nip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 heels | case |
| 8 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 heels | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heels | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 children | case |
| 11 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nip | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 instinct | case |
| 13 | instinct | instinct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nip | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 call | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owner | det |
| 16 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 call | aux |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nip | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | obj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 call | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nip | 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 | herd | gerund | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | nip | may | Herding dogs like sheepdogs | children's running heels | from instinct | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | call off speech: assert | should | the owner | the dog | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient |
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:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.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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