The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 36
Two dogs that hate each other are often walked at different times; keeping them apart is a sensible answer.
Who acts: Two dogs, keeping · What happens: hate, walk, keep, be · To what, where: each, Two dogs, neighbours, sensible answer · 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 (Two dogs, keeping), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 dogs | nummod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 walked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hate | nsubj |
| 4 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 hate | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 walked | aux:pass |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 walked | advmod |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 times | case |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 walked | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
| 14 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 answer | csubj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keeping | obj |
| 16 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 14 keeping | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 answer | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 answer | det |
| 19 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 answer | amod |
| 20 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walked | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Two dogs | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | walk | present · passive | Two dogs | time | often property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||
| 3 | keep | gerund | neighbours = neighbour | apart property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be speech: assert | present | keeping | a sensible answer | 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:36.
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): no change. 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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