The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 29
A frightened animal's trust grows in small signs, like a sniff or a tiny wag, often over weeks or months.
Who acts: trust, frightened animal · What happens: grow, trust · To what, where: small signs
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 (trust, frightened animal), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trust | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 animal | case |
| 5 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grows | nsubj |
| 6 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 signs | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 signs | amod |
| 9 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grows | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sniff | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 sniff | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sniff | det |
| 13 | sniff | sniff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 signs | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 wag | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wag | det |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wag | amod |
| 17 | wag | wag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sniff | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weeks | punct |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 21 weeks | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 weeks | case |
| 21 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grows | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 months | cc |
| 23 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 weeks | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a frightened animal's trust | small signs like a sniff or a tiny wag | week | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sign=Location | |||
| 2 | trust | a frightened animal | nom trust «possession intransitive»: 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:29.
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): no change. 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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