The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 34
A dog that has bitten once can bite again, so grown-ups make rules like never leaving it alone with small children.
Who acts: dog, grown ups · What happens: bite, make, not leave · To what, where: rules, lead
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 (dog, grown ups), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 bitten | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitten | aux |
| 5 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 dog | acl:relcl |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 bitten | advmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bite | aux |
| 8 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | parataxis |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 bite | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bite | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 make | advmod |
| 12 | grown | grown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ups | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ups | punct |
| 14 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | nsubj |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 19 leaving | mark |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 leaving | advmod |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 make | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leaving | obj |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leaving | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 children | case |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 children | amod |
| 24 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leaving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present · perfect | a dog | once property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bite | can | a dog | again | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | present | grown ups | rules | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product | ||||
| 4 | not leave | gerund | grown ups not said here | lead | with small children; alone property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with child=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:34.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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