The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 33

A muzzle or a short lead on a dog means «don't touch»; it keeps people safe and can let a dog that has bitten stay at home.

Who acts: muzzle, lead, dog · What happens: mean, not touch, keep, let, bite, stay · To what, where: people, dog, home · 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 (muzzle, lead, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 muzzle	det
2	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 lead	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lead	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lead	amod
6	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 muzzle	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 dog	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lead	nmod
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 touch	punct
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 touch	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 touch	advmod
14	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	ccomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 touch	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 keeps	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keeps	nsubj
18	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 means	parataxis
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keeps	obj
20	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 keeps	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 keeps	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bitten	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 bitten	aux
28	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 dog	acl:relcl
29	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 home	case
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a muzzle or a short lead on a dog				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not touch in a quote	infinitive · do-support					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	lead	people		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	let	can	lead not said here	a dog			tree rules
5	bite	present · perfect	a dog				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	stay	infinitive	a dog not said here		home		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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:33.

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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