Bitten, lost, hurt: when fear stays after the danger, sentence 4
For weeks he crossed the road even for tiny dogs; the dog had not hated him, it was scared or guarding its garden, and he had reached in without asking.
Who acts: fear, dog · What happens: cross, not hate, be, guard, reach, ask · To what, where: road, fear, garden
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 (fear, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 weeks | case |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 dogs | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 dogs | case |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dogs | amod |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hated | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hated | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hated | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 hated | advmod |
| 16 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 crossed | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hated | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scared | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 scared | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 scared | cop |
| 21 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crossed | parataxis |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 guarding | cc |
| 23 | guarding | guard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 scared | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 garden | nmod:poss |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 guarding | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reached | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reached | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 reached | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 reached | aux |
| 30 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 crossed | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADV | _ | 30 reached | advmod |
| 32 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 33 asking | mark |
| 33 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 reached | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | fear | the road | week | for tiny dogs | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||
| 2 | not hate | past · perfect | the dog | fear | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | dog | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | guard | gerund | dog not said here | dog's garden | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | reach | past · perfect | fear | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | gerund | fear not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:reflection:006-bitten-lost-hurt-when-fear-stays-after-the-danger.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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