The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 14
Sam's dad teaches the real rule for a dog running at you: stand still like a tree, arms in, look away.
Who acts: dad, dog · What happens: teach, run, stand, look away · To what, where: real rule
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 (dad, 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teaches | nsubj |
| 4 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rule | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rule | amod |
| 7 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teaches | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 dog | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rule | nmod |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dog | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 running | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 stand | punct |
| 15 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 teaches | parataxis |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 stand | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stand | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arms | punct |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 in | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 24 look | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 in | punct |
| 24 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 stand | parataxis |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 look | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 teaches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Sam's dad | the real rule | for a dog | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rule=Recipient | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | a dog not said here | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stand | infinitive | still | like a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look away | infinitive | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you.lesson:14.
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 ×1, 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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