The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 37
Some farm animals, like guard geese, are not pets at all and should be left alone.
Who acts: farm animals · What happens: not be, leave · To what, where: pets
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 (farm animals), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 animals | det |
| 2 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animals | compound |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pets | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 geese | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 geese | case |
| 6 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 geese | compound |
| 7 | geese | geese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 animals | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 animals | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pets | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 pets | advmod |
| 11 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | fixed |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 pets | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 left | aux:pass |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pets | conj |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 left | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | some farm animals like guard geese | pets | all obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | should · passive | some farm animals like guard geese not said here | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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:37.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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