The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 39
Ex-racing greyhounds often have never lived in a house and need time to learn that a home is safe.
Who acts: Ex-racing greyhounds, home · What happens: not live, need, learn, be · To what, where: house · 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 (Ex-racing greyhounds, home), 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 | Ex-racing | ex-racing | ADJ | _ | 2 greyhounds | amod |
| 2 | greyhounds | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 need | cc |
| 11 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 need | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 learn | mark |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 time | acl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 safe | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 home | det |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 safe | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 safe | cop |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 learn | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | present · perfect | Ex-racing greyhounds | a house | often property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | need | present | Ex-racing greyhounds not said here | time | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | Ex-racing greyhounds not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | a home | safe property | tree rules |
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:39.
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): no change. 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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