The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 29
Dogs that bark a lot can also bite; «all bark and no bite» is not a safe rule.
Who acts: Dogs, bark · What happens: bark, bite, not be · To what, where: lot, safe rule
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 (Dogs, bark), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bite | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 bark | nsubj |
| 3 | bark | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dogs | acl:relcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bark | obl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bite | aux |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 bite | advmod |
| 8 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 rule | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 bark | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bark | det |
| 12 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rule | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bite | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 bite | det |
| 15 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bark | conj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 bark | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 rule | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 rule | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 rule | det |
| 20 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rule | amod |
| 21 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bite | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bark | present | Dogs | a lot | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bite | can | Dogs | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | all bark and no bite | a safe rule | 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:29.
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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