The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 25

«The muzzle keeps her home with me.» Connor's dog Rex bit a toddler who pulled his ears, so Rex is never left alone with little ones again.

Who acts: muzzle, dog, toddler · What happens: keep, bit, pull, not leave · To what, where: home, toddler, ears, Rex · 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 (muzzle, dog, toddler), 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 keeps	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 muzzle	det
3	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 home	nmod:poss
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
11	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 dog	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Connor	case
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	nsubj
14	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bit	nsubj
15	bit	bit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keeps	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 toddler	det
17	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bit	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 pulled	nsubj
19	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 toddler	acl:relcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ears	nmod:poss
21	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pulled	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	27 left	advmod
24	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 left	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux:pass
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 left	advmod
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bit	advcl
28	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 left	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 ones	case
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 ones	amod
31	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 left	obl
32	again	again	ADV	_	27 left	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	the muzzle	muzzle's home		with Nan	tree rules
2	bit	past	Connor's dog	a toddler			tree rules
3	pull	past	a toddler	Rex's ears			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
4	not leave	present · passive		Rex	again	with little ones; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with one=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:25.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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