The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 32

The idea that bulldogs' jaws «lock» shut is a myth, but any dog bite is serious and needs an adult and often a doctor.

Who acts: jaws, idea, dog bite · What happens: lock, shut, be, need · To what, where: idea, myth, adult

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 (jaws, idea, dog bite), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 myth	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 lock	mark
4	bulldogs	bulldog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jaws	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 bulldogs	case
6	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lock	nsubj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 lock	punct
8	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 idea	acl:relcl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 lock	punct
10	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lock	xcomp
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 myth	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 myth	det
13	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 serious	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 serious	cc
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 bite	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bite	compound
18	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 serious	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 serious	cop
20	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 myth	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 needs	cc
22	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 serious	conj
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 adult	det
24	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 doctor	cc
26	often	often	ADV	_	28 doctor	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 doctor	det
28	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 adult	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 myth	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lock in a quote	infinitive	bulldogs's jaws	the idea not said here		tree rules
2	shut	participle	bulldogs's jaws not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	the idea	a myth		tree rules
4	is	present	any dog bite		serious property	tree rules
5	need	present	any dog bite not said here	a adult and a doctor		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adult=Theme

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:32.

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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