--- title: Dachshund means badger dog in German; its long body and short legs l… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics description: Dachshund means badger dog in German; its long body and short legs let it follow badgers underground, but its long back is easily hurt by jumping off sofas. Who acts: Dachshund, long body, sight. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dachshund, long body, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:10 # text = Dachshund means badger dog in German; its long body and short legs let it follow badgers underground, but its long back is easily hurt by jumping off sofas. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dachshund dachshund PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 badger badger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 German German PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 badgers badger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj 18 underground underground ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 easily easily ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 27 by by SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 jumping jump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 sofas sofa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Dachshund | badger dog | | | | in German | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme in german=Attribute | | 2 | **let** | present | sight's long body and short legs | sight | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | infinitive | sight *not said here* | badgers | | | | underground *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Theme | | 4 | **hurt** | present · passive | | sight's long back | | | | easily *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **jump off** | gerund | | sofas | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sofa=Trajectory | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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