The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 34

The safe way to meet a dog is with the owner holding it, your parent knowing, and the dog choosing how close to come.

Who acts: safe way, owner, parent, dog · What happens: meet, be, hold, knowing, choose, come · To what, where: dog, close

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 (safe way, owner, parent, dog), 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	3 way	det
2	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 owner	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 meet	mark
5	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 way	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meet	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 owner	cop
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 owner	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 owner	det
11	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 owner	acl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 holding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knowing	punct
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 parent	nmod:poss
16	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knowing	nsubj
17	knowing	knowing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 holding	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 choosing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 choosing	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dog	det
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 choosing	nsubj
22	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 knowing	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 close	advmod
24	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 choosing	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 come	mark
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 close	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 owner	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	to-infinitive	the safe way not said here	a dog		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent
2	is	present	the safe way		with the owner	tree rules
3	hold	gerund	the owner not said here	dog		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	knowing	gerund	your parent			tree rules
5	choose	gerund	the dog	close		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent close=Theme
6	come	to-infinitive	the dog not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:34.

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): R5-strong ×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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