The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 32
Dogs often follow their owner's lead, so being kind and trusted by the owner can help a dog accept you.
Who acts: Dogs, dog · What happens: follow, be, trust, help, accept · To what, where: lead, dog, you
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 (Dogs, dog), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 follow | advmod |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 owner | nmod:poss |
| 5 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 owner | case |
| 7 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 help | advmod |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kind | cop |
| 11 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 help | csubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trusted | cc |
| 13 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 kind | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 owner | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owner | det |
| 16 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trusted | obl:agent |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 follow | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | obj |
| 21 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 help | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 accept | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Dogs | signs's owner's lead | often property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | kind property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | help | can | Dogs not said here | a dog | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dog=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | accept | infinitive | a dog not said here | you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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:32.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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