The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 13

Later Kieran's big brother says bulldogs' jaws «lock» once they bite; Lily's mum looks it up with her — that's a myth, but any dog bite is serious and needs a grown-up and often a doctor.

Who acts: big brother, jaws, mum, that, dog bite · What happens: say, lock, bite, look up, be, need · To what, where: jaws, jelly, myth, grown doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (big brother, jaws, mum, that), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 says	advmod
2	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Kieran	case
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	bulldogs	bulldog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 jaws	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 bulldogs	case
9	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 says	obj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 lock	punct
11	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 jaws	acl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 lock	punct
13	once	once	SCONJ	_	15 bite	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bite	nsubj
15	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lock	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 looks	punct
17	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 mum	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Lily	case
19	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looks	nsubj
20	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looks	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 looks	compound:prt
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looks	obl
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 myth	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 myth	nsubj
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 myth	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 myth	det
29	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 serious	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 serious	cc
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 bite	det
33	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bite	compound
34	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 serious	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 serious	cop
36	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 myth	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 needs	cc
38	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 serious	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 doctor	det
40	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 doctor	amod
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 up	punct
42	up	up	ADP	_	40 grown	compound:prt
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 doctor	cc
44	often	often	ADV	_	46 doctor	advmod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 doctor	det
46	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 needs	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Kieran's big brother	bulldogs's jaws	late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jaw=Topic
2	lock in a quote	infinitive	bulldogs's jaws not said here			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	bite	present	jaws = jaw			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	look up	present	Lily's mum	jelly	with Lily	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
5	is a	present	that	a myth		tree rules
6	is	present	any dog bite		serious property	tree rules
7	need	present	any dog bite not said here	a grown doctor		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme
8	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:13.

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, R4-particle ×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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