The dog that wags at last, and the one that never does, sentence 9
Sam's dad says, «Not every dog's going to be your mate, son.
Who acts: dad, dog · What happens: say, go, be · To what, where: mate · 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 (dad, dog), 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 | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 7 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dog | advmod |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 mate | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mate | cop |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mate | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mate | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sam's dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | every dog | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | every dog not said here | your mate and son | 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:9.
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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