The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 24
«If she bites a third person, they might take her away,» Nan says.
Who acts: dog, people, Nan · What happens: bite, take away, say · To what, where: third person, dog · 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 (dog, people, Nan), 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 bites | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 bites | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bites | nsubj |
| 4 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bites | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 says | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| 16 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bites | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite in a quote | present | dog | a third person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take away in a quote | might | people | dog | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Nan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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:24.
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, 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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