Cats and dogs up close, sentence 3
Many things people do out of love feel frightening to animals: a hug around a dog's neck feels like a trap, and a face pushed close to a dog's face is how many bites to children happen.
Who acts: people, Many things, hug, face · What happens: do out, feel, push, be, happen · To what, where: love, face, many bites
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 (people, Many things, hug, face), 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 | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 things | acl:relcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 love | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 out | fixed |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | frightening | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 animals | case |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 frightening | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hug | det |
| 14 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feels | nsubj |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hug | nmod |
| 20 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feel | parataxis |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 trap | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 trap | det |
| 23 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feels | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bites | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bites | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 face | det |
| 27 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bites | nsubj |
| 28 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 face | acl |
| 29 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 pushed | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 face | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 dog | det |
| 32 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 face | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 dog | case |
| 34 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 close | obl |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 bites | cop |
| 36 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 many | advmod |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bites | amod |
| 38 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 feels | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 happen | mark |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 bites | nmod |
| 41 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 bites | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do out | present | people | love | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | Many things | frighten property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | a hug around a dog's neck | like a trap | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like trap=Theme | ||||
| 4 | push | participle | a face not said here | close property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a face | many bites | children nmod | tree rules | |||
| 6 | happen | to-infinitive | a hug around a dog's neck not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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 ×2. 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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