Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home, sentence 8
Dogs wag their tails for many feelings, including nervousness and warning, so look at the whole dog and ask the owner before stroking.
Who acts: Dogs · What happens: wag, look, ask, stroke · To what, where: tails, owner
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats, dogs and animal 'facts' at home» of the myths 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 (Dogs), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wag | nsubj |
| 2 | wag | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tails | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wag | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 feelings | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feelings | amod |
| 7 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wag | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nervousness | punct |
| 9 | including | include | ADP | _ | 10 nervousness | case |
| 10 | nervousness | nervousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feelings | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 warning | cc |
| 12 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nervousness | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 look | advmod |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 wag | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 dog | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dog | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dog | amod |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ask | cc |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 owner | det |
| 23 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ask | obj |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 stroking | mark |
| 25 | stroking | stroke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 ask | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wag | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wag | present | Dogs | Cats's tails | for many feelings include nervousness and warning | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 2 | look | infinitive | at the whole dog | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dog=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the owner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | stroke | gerund | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:myths:012-cats-dogs-and-animal-facts-at-home.lesson:8.
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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