The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 1
Sam tries biscuits, a squeaky ball, even a baby voice.
Who acts: Sam · What happens: try · To what, where: biscuits
This is a sentence of the lesson «The bulldog next door who never likes you» of the everyday 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 (Sam), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tries | nsubj |
| 2 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tries | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ball | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ball | det |
| 6 | squeaky | squeaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ball | amod |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 biscuits | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 voice | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 voice | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voice | compound |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 biscuits | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Sam | biscuits and a baby voice | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Eventuality |
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:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you.lesson:1.
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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