The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 15
Staring a dog down, like Connor's uncle says, is a challenge.
Who acts: uncle, Staring · What happens: stare down, say, be · To what, where: dog, challenge · 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 (uncle, Staring), 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 | Staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 challenge | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Staring | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Staring | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 says | mark |
| 7 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Connor | case |
| 9 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Staring | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Staring | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 challenge | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 challenge | det |
| 14 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 challenge | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare down | gerund | a dog | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Connor's uncle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Staring | a challenge | tree rules |
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:15.
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): 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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