Cats and dogs up close, sentence 18
Yawning, lip licking and turning the head away are calm-down signals that show a dog feels uneasy.
Who acts: Yawning, down signals, dog · What happens: turn away, be, show, feel · To what, where: head, down signals · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats and dogs up close» 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 (Yawning, down signals, 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 | Yawning | yawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 signals | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 licking | punct |
| 3 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 licking | compound |
| 4 | licking | licking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yawning | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 turning | cc |
| 6 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Yawning | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turning | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 turning | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 signals | cop |
| 11 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 down | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 down | punct |
| 13 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 signals | amod |
| 14 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 show | nsubj |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 signals | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feels | nsubj |
| 19 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | ccomp |
| 20 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 feels | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 signals | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | gerund | Yawning and lip licking not said here | the head | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Yawning and lip licking | down signals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | present | down signals | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | feel | present | a dog | uneasy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:061-cats-and-dogs-up-close.lesson:18.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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