The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 16

«She's tamping if you rush her,» he says — in South Wales «tamping» means furious.

Who acts: vicar, you, uncle, tamping · What happens: tamp, rush, say, mean · To what, where: vicar · 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 (vicar, you, uncle, tamping), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 tamping	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tamping	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tamping	aux
4	tamping	tamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 says	ccomp
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 rush	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 rush	nsubj
7	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tamping	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rush	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rush	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 tamping	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 means	parataxis
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 Wales	case
15	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Wales	compound
16	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 means	obl
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 tamping	punct
18	tamping	tamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 means	nsubj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 tamping	punct
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 means	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tamp in a quote	present · progressive	vicar			vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	rush a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	vicar		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	uncle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mean	present	tamping		in South Wales; furious property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in wales=Attribute

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:16.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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