Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 10

Dogs often bite because they are scared or guarding their space; asking the owner first and letting a dog sniff your hand are basic dog rules.

Who acts: Dogs, steps, dog, asking · What happens: bite, be, guard, ask, let, sniff · To what, where: space, owner, dog, hand, basic dog rules

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger» of the reflection 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, steps, dog, asking), 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	3 bite	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 scared	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bite	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 guarding	cc
9	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 scared	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 space	nmod:poss
11	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guarding	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 rules	punct
13	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 rules	csubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 owner	det
15	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asking	obj
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 asking	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 letting	cc
18	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 asking	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dog	det
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 letting	obj
21	sniff	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 letting	xcomp
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sniff	obj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 rules	cop
25	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rules	amod
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rules	compound
27	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bite	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Dogs		often property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	steps = step		scared property	tree rules
3	guard	gerund	steps = step not said here	steps's space		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Beneficiary
4	ask speech: ask	gerund		the owner	first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
5	let	gerund		a dog		tree rules
6	sniff	infinitive	a dog not said here	your hand		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
7	is a	present	asking	basic dog rules		tree rules

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:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.lesson:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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