The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 33
A dog can be gentle with its own family and fierce with strangers; the owner's trust does not pass to you.
Who acts: dog, trust, owner · What happens: be, not pass, trust · To what, where: you
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, trust, owner), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gentle | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 gentle | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gentle | cop |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 family | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 family | amod |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gentle | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fierce | cc |
| 11 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gentle | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 strangers | case |
| 13 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fierce | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 pass | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 owner | det |
| 16 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trust | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 owner | case |
| 18 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pass | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pass | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 pass | advmod |
| 21 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gentle | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 pass | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gentle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | a dog | with dog's own family; gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a dog not said here | with strangers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not pass | present · do-support | the owner's trust | you | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | trust | the owner | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:33.
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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