Facing fears, sentence 4
Walk past a barking dog slowly and calmly without staring or running, because running can make a dog chase you.
Who acts: you, dog · What happens: walk, bark, stare, run, make, chase · To what, where: dog, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Facing fears» 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 (you, 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 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | past | past | ADP | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 4 | barking | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walk | obl |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 1 Walk | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 calmly | cc |
| 8 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 6 slowly | conj |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 staring | mark |
| 10 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Walk | advcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 running | cc |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 staring | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Walk | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dog | det |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 chase | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Walk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | imperative | you not said here | past a barking dog; slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past dog=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | bark | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stare | gerund | you not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | run | gerund | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | make | can | a dog | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | chase | infinitive | a dog not said here | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:090-facing-fears.lesson:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/4/