The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 27
Judge the dog, not the breed — and always ask first.
Who acts: you · What happens: judge, ask · To what, where: dog
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 (you), 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 | Judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Judge | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 breed | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 breed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 breed | det |
| 7 | breed | breed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | conj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ask | cc |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 ask | advmod |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Judge | conj |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 ask | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Judge | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | imperative | you not said here | the dog and the breed | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent dog=Value | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | always, first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:27.
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. 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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