The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 28
Shy or frightened dogs make friends on their own terms; quiet patience works better than treats, calling or grabbing.
Who acts: Shy dogs, quiet patience, friends · What happens: make, work, call, grab, term · To what, where: friends, own terms · 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 (Shy dogs, quiet patience, friends), 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 | Shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dogs | amod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 frightened | cc |
| 3 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Shy | conj |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 terms | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 terms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 terms | amod |
| 10 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 works | punct |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 patience | amod |
| 13 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 works | nsubj |
| 14 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 15 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 works | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 treats | case |
| 17 | treats | treat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 works | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 calling | punct |
| 19 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 treats | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 grabbing | cc |
| 21 | grabbing | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 calling | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Shy dogs | friends | friends's own terms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product | |||
| 2 | work | present | quiet patience | than treats; well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | quiet patience not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grab | gerund | quiet patience not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | term | friends = friend | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=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:28.
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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