The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 25
A dog guarding its own garden or gate is doing a job; its growling is not about you personally.
Who acts: dog · What happens: guard, do, growl, not be · To what, where: own garden, job
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doing | nsubj |
| 3 | guarding | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dog | acl |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 garden | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guarding | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 gate | cc |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garden | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 doing | aux |
| 10 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 job | det |
| 12 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doing | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 doing | punct |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 growling | nmod:poss |
| 15 | growling | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 doing | parataxis |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 you | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 you | advmod |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 growling | obl |
| 20 | personally | personally | ADV | _ | 19 you | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | gerund | a dog not said here | dog's own garden or gate | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | do | present · progressive | a dog | a job | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | growl | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not is | present | about you; personally property | 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:25.
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. 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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