The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 17
On Chloe's third visit, the lurcher sniffs her shoe and gives one tiny wag.
Who acts: lurcher, Chloe · What happens: sniff, give, visit · To what, where: shoe, third visit, one tiny wag
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 (lurcher, Chloe), 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 | _ | 5 visit | case |
| 2 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 visit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Chloe | case |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 visit | amod |
| 5 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sniffs | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 visit | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lurcher | det |
| 8 | lurcher | lurcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sniffs | nsubj |
| 9 | sniffs | sniff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sniffs | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gives | cc |
| 13 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sniffs | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 wag | nummod |
| 15 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wag | amod |
| 16 | wag | wag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gives | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sniffs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sniff | present | the lurcher | lurcher's shoe | Chloe's third visit | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | present | the lurcher not said here | one tiny wag | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | visit | Chloe | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:17.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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