The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 28
Never climb into a dog's garden or yard, not for a dare, a ball or a dropped ice cream: knock and ask the owner.
Who acts: you · What happens: not climb, drop, knock, ask · To what, where: garden, owner
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 (you), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 climb | advmod |
| 2 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 garden | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climb | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 yard | cc |
| 9 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 garden | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dare | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 dare | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 dare | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dare | det |
| 14 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climb | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ball | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ball | det |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dare | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 cream | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cream | det |
| 20 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cream | amod |
| 21 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cream | compound |
| 22 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dare | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 knock | punct |
| 24 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 climb | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ask | cc |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 knock | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 owner | det |
| 28 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ask | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not climb | imperative | you not said here | a dog's garden or yard | for a dare and a ball or a dropped ice cream | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | |||
| 2 | drop | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | knock | infinitive | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the owner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient |
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:28.
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): no change. 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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