The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 31

If a dog runs at you, stand still like a tree, keep your arms in and look away; staring at it is a challenge.

Who acts: dog, staring · What happens: run, stand, keep, look away, stare, be · To what, where: arms, challenge

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, staring), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 runs	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 runs	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 runs	conj
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 stand	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stand	conj
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 keep	obj
17	in	in	ADV	_	14 keep	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 look	cc
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 keep	conj
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 look	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 staring	punct
22	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 challenge	csubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 staring	obl
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 challenge	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 challenge	det
27	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	a dog			at you	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory
2	stand	infinitive	a dog not said here		still	like a tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	infinitive	a dog not said here	your arms			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
4	look away	infinitive	a dog not said here			away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	stare	gerund				at dog	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
6	is a	present	staring	a challenge			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:31.

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 ×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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