The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 12
On Lily's cousin's farm, the guard geese haven't liked a single visitor in twenty years.
Who acts: guard geese · What happens: not like · To what, where: single visitor, farm
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 (guard geese), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 6 farm | case |
| 2 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Lily | case |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 farm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 cousin | case |
| 6 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 liked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 farm | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 geese | det |
| 9 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 geese | compound |
| 10 | geese | geese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 liked | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 liked | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 liked | advmod |
| 13 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 visitor | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 visitor | amod |
| 16 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 liked | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 18 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 liked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · perfect | the guard geese | a single visitor | Lily's cousin's farm | year | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot visitor=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:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:12.
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): R8-pos-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.
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