The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 35
Pulling a dog's ears or tail hurts it and is a common reason dogs bite children.
Who acts: Pulling, dogs · What happens: pull, hurt, be, bite · To what, where: ears, lead, common reason, children
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 (Pulling, dogs), 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 | Pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hurts | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dog | case |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pulling | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurts | cc |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ears | conj |
| 8 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurts | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reason | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reason | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 reason | det |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reason | amod |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurts | conj |
| 15 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bite | nsubj |
| 16 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reason | acl:relcl |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bite | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | gerund | a dog's ears and tail | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt | present | Pulling | lead | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Pulling not said here | a common reason | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bite | present | dogs | children | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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:35.
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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