The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 16

Mr Doyle says Tank is soft as butter with him and rolls over for belly rubs — but when Maddie rolls over on the pavement herself to copy the trick, Tank only growls harder: his trust in Mr Doyle doesn't pass to strangers.

Who acts: Mr Doyle, Tank, Maddie, trust, Doyle · What happens: say, be, roll, roll over, copy, growl · To what, where: belly rubs, Maddie, pavement, trick, strangers · 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 (Mr Doyle, Tank, Maddie, trust), 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	Mr	mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Doyle	flat
2	Doyle	Doyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tank	tank	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 soft	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 soft	cop
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 butter	case
8	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soft	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 butter	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rolls	cc
12	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 him	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	16 rubs	case
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 rubs	case
15	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rubs	compound
16	rubs	rub	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rolls	obl
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 rolls	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 rolls	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 rolls	advmod
20	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 rolls	nsubj
21	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
22	over	over	ADV	_	21 rolls	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 pavement	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pavement	det
25	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rolls	obl
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 rolls	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 copy	mark
28	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 rolls	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trick	det
30	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 copy	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Tank	punct
32	Tank	Tank	PROPN	_	34 growls	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 growls	advmod
34	growls	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
35	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 growls	advmod
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 trust	punct
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 trust	nmod:poss
38	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pass	nsubj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 Mr	case
40	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 trust	nmod
41	Doyle	Doyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Mr	flat
42	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 pass	aux
43	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 pass	advmod
44	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 growls	parataxis
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 strangers	case
46	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 pass	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mr Doyle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Tank			as butter with Doyle; soft property	tree rules
3	roll	present	Tank not said here		belly rubs		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rub=Trajectory
4	roll over	present	Maddie	Maddie	the pavement	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on pavement=Trajectory
5	copy	to-infinitive	Maddie not said here	the trick			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
6	growl	present	Tank			hard property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not pass	present · do-support	Doyle's trust in Mr		strangers		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stranger=Initial_Location
8	trust		Doyle			in Mr	nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl

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:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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