The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 6

He was a rescue: someone kept him shut in a shed for two years, so now anyone near his gate is trouble as far as he's concerned.

Who acts: Doyle, someone, anyone · What happens: be, keep, shut · To what, where: rescue, Doyle, shed, trouble

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 (Doyle, someone, anyone), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rescue	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rescue	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rescue	det
4	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rescue	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	obj
9	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 kept	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 shed	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shed	det
12	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shut	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shut	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 trouble	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	24 trouble	advmod
18	now	now	ADV	_	19 anyone	advmod
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 trouble	nsubj
20	near	near	ADP	_	22 gate	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 gate	nmod:poss
22	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 anyone	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 trouble	cop
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rescue	parataxis
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 far	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 trouble	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 concerned	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 concerned	nsubj
29	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 concerned	cop
30	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 far	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rescue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Doyle	a rescue				tree rules
2	keep	past	someone	Doyle				tree rules
3	shut	participle	Doyle not said here		a shed	year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	anyone	trouble			far property	tree rules
5	is	present	Doyle				concerned property	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:6.

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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