The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 0
Lily's new neighbour has a greyhound called Ghost, an ex-racing dog who never lived in a house before.
Who acts: new neighbour, ex-racing dog · What happens: have, call, not live · To what, where: greyhound, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does» 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 (new neighbour, ex-racing 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 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 neighbour | amod |
| 4 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 greyhound | det |
| 7 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 greyhound | acl |
| 9 | Ghost | ghost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dog | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 12 | ex-racing | ex-racing | ADJ | _ | 13 dog | amod |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Ghost | appos |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 lived | advmod |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dog | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 lived | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Lily's new neighbour | a greyhound | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a greyhound not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not live | past | a ex-racing dog | a house | before property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.
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