The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 7
Sam tries the same patience with Tank the bulldog: sitting on the wall outside number 14 every day.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: try, sit · To what, where: same patience, wall
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 (Sam), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tries | nsubj |
| 2 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 patience | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 patience | amod |
| 5 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tries | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Tank | case |
| 7 | Tank | tank | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tries | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bulldog | det |
| 9 | bulldog | bulldog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Tank | appos |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 sitting | punct |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 tries | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 16 number | case |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wall | nmod |
| 17 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 number | flat |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Sam | the same patience | with Tank | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent patience=Patient with tank=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | Sam not said here | the wall outside number | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=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:7.
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 ×1, 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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