Cats and dogs up close, sentence 23
Many dog bites happen when someone touches a dog while it is eating, sleeping or chewing a toy.
Who acts: Many dog bites, someone, pavement · What happens: happen, touch, eat, sleep, chew · To what, where: dog, toy
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 (Many dog bites, someone, pavement), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bites | amod |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bites | compound |
| 3 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 touches | mark |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 touches | nsubj |
| 7 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touches | obj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 eating | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eating | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eating | aux |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 touches | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleeping | punct |
| 15 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 eating | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 chewing | cc |
| 17 | chewing | chew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 eating | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 toy | det |
| 19 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chewing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Many dog bites | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | touch | present | someone | a dog | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | present · progressive | pavement | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sleep | gerund | pavement not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | chew | gerund | pavement not said here | a toy | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient |
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:23.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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