The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 2
So every Saturday Lily sits quietly in the room with a book, never reaching out, never calling him.
Who acts: Lily · What happens: sit, not reach out, not call · To what, where: room, Lily · 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 (Lily), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sits | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Saturday | det |
| 3 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | nsubj |
| 5 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 sits | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 book | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sits | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reaching | punct |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 reaching | advmod |
| 15 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sits | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 reaching | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 calling | punct |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 calling | advmod |
| 19 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 reaching | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 calling | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sits | 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 | sit | present | Lily | the room | saturday | with a book; quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | ||
| 2 | not reach out | gerund | Lily not said here | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not call | gerund | Lily not said here | Lily | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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:2.
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 ×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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