The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 3
Mr Doyle, his owner, leans out: «Don't feed him, son.
Who acts: Mr Doyle · What happens: lean out, not feed · To what, where: Doyle · 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), 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 | compound |
| 2 | Doyle | Doyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 leans | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 owner | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 owner | nmod:poss |
| 5 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Doyle | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leans | punct |
| 7 | leans | lean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 leans | compound:prt |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 leans | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 feed | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 feed | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 feed | advmod |
| 13 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 leans | ccomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 feed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 son | punct |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feed | vocative |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leans | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=warn, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean out | present | Mr Doyle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not feed in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Mr Doyle not said here | Doyle | son vocative | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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