The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 23
Kieran's nan's terrier Mitzi has bitten two people, so she wears a muzzle when visitors come.
Who acts: terrier, visitors · What happens: bite, wear, come · To what, where: two people, muzzle
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 (terrier, visitors), 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 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nan | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kieran | case |
| 3 | nan | nan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrier | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 nan | case |
| 5 | terrier | terrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bitten | nsubj |
| 6 | Mitzi | Mitzi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 terrier | appos |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bitten | aux |
| 8 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 people | nummod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bitten | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wears | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 wears | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wears | nsubj |
| 14 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bitten | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 muzzle | det |
| 16 | muzzle | muzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wears | obj |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 18 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 come | nsubj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wears | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bitten | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present · perfect | Kieran's nan's terrier | two people | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wear | present | terrier | a muzzle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent muzzle=Source | ||||
| 3 | come | present | visitors | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:23.
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): R7-rel-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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