The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 31

Always ask the owner before touching any dog, even one that is wagging; a wagging tail does not always mean friendly.

Who acts: you, wagging tail · What happens: ask, touch, wag, not mean · To what, where: owner, 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, wagging tail), 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	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owner	det
4	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 touching	mark
6	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ask	advcl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touching	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wagging	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 one	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 dog	appos
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wagging	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wagging	aux
14	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 one	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 friendly	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tail	det
17	wagging	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 tail	amod
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mean	nsubj
19	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mean	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 mean	advmod
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 mean	advmod
22	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	parataxis
23	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mean	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the owner	always property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
2	touch	gerund	you not said here	any dog		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme
3	wag	present · progressive				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	wag	gerund				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not mean	present · do-support	a wagging tail		always, friendly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:31.

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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