The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 26

And Kieran swears «rottweilers are killers» — until he meets Maddie's neighbour's rottweiler, owner there, and it flops on its back for a belly rub.

Who acts: Kieran, rottweilers, owner · What happens: swear, be, meet, flop · To what, where: killers, rottweiler, back · 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 (Kieran, rottweilers, owner), 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	_	3 swears	cc
2	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 swears	nsubj
3	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 killers	punct
5	rottweilers	rottweiler	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 killers	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 killers	cop
7	killers	killer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swears	ccomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 killers	punct
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 meets	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 meets	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 meets	nsubj
12	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swears	advcl
13	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 neighbour	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Maddie	case
15	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rottweiler	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 neighbour	case
17	rottweiler	rottweiler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meets	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 owner	punct
19	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rottweiler	appos
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 owner	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flops	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flops	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 flops	nsubj
24	flops	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 meets	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flops	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 rub	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 rub	det
30	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rub	compound
31	rub	rub	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flops	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swears	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swear	present	Kieran				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	rottweilers	killers			tree rules
3	meet	present	Kieran	Maddie's neighbour's rottweiler			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rottweiler=Co-Agent
4	flop	present	owner		owner's back	for a belly rub	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=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:26.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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