"Crime is up, I saw it on the news", sentence 11
Most dogs never bite anyone; learning how to be safe around dogs is more useful than fearing all of them.
Who acts: Most dogs, learning · What happens: not bite, learn, be, fear · To what, where: anyone, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world 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 (Most dogs, learning), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 bite | advmod |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 bite | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 useful | punct |
| 7 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 useful | csubj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 safe | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 safe | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 safe | cop |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 learning | ccomp |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 dogs | case |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 safe | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 useful | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 useful | advmod |
| 16 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bite | conj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 fearing | mark |
| 18 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 useful | advcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 fearing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 all | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bite | present | Most dogs | anyone | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | learn | gerund | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | around dogs; safe property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | learning | useful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fear | gerund | learning not said here | all | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |
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:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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