The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 15
Chloe's uncle in Cardiff has a rescue lurcher who took six months to let anyone but him touch her.
Who acts: uncle, rescue lurcher, anyone · What happens: have, take, let, touch · To what, where: rescue lurcher, vicar
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 (uncle, rescue lurcher, anyone), 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 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Chloe | case |
| 3 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Cardiff | case |
| 5 | Cardiff | Cardiff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 uncle | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lurcher | det |
| 8 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lurcher | compound |
| 9 | lurcher | lurcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lurcher | acl:relcl |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 months | nummod |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 let | mark |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 took | advcl |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 touch | nsubj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 him | cc |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 anyone | conj |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 touch | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Chloe's uncle in Cardiff | a rescue lurcher | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lurcher=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a rescue lurcher | month | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | a rescue lurcher not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | touch | infinitive | anyone | vicar | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-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:15.
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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