The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 20
And Rocky, the corner-shop dog, ignored Jake for years — until Jake helped the shopkeeper carry boxes in the rain.
Who acts: Rocky, Jake · What happens: ignore, help, carry · To what, where: Jake, shopkeeper boxes, rain
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 (Rocky, Jake), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ignored | cc |
| 2 | Rocky | Rocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ignored | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rocky | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 5 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shop | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 corner | punct |
| 7 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dog | compound |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rocky | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ignored | punct |
| 10 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ignored | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ignored | obl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 helped | punct |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 helped | mark |
| 16 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 helped | nsubj |
| 17 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ignored | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shopkeeper | det |
| 19 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boxes | compound |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helped | xcomp |
| 21 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 rain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rain | det |
| 24 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ignored | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | past | Rocky | Jake | year | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme | |||
| 2 | help | past | Jake | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | infinitive | Jake not said here | shopkeeper boxes | the rain | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Value in rain=Location |
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:20.
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 ×4, 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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