The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 18
Tank and Biscuit, the pug from across the road, bark at each other on every walk, so their owners now walk them at different times.
Who acts: owners · What happens: bark, walk · 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 (owners), 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 | Tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Biscuit | cc |
| 3 | Biscuit | Biscuit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tank | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pug | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pug | det |
| 6 | pug | pug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tank | appos |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pug | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bark | punct |
| 12 | bark | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tank | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 each | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bark | obl |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 walk | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 walk | det |
| 18 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bark | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 walk | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 walk | advmod |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 owners | nmod:poss |
| 22 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 walk | nsubj |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | _ | 24 walk | advmod |
| 24 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tank | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 walk | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 times | case |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 times | amod |
| 28 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 walk | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tank | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | present | on every walk; at each | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at each=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | walk | present | biscuits's owners | biscuits = biscuit | now; time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
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:18.
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, 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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