The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 9
Jake isn't bitten, but he's white as a sheet, and it's the Doyles who get the warning letter from the council, not Jake.
Who acts: Jake, sheet, Doyles · What happens: not bite, be, get · To what, where: Jake, Doyles, warning letter, council
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 (Jake, sheet, Doyles), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bitten | aux:pass |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bitten | advmod |
| 4 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 white | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 white | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 white | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 white | cop |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bitten | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 sheet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sheet | det |
| 12 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 white | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Doyles | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Doyles | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Doyles | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Doyles | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Doyles | det |
| 18 | Doyles | Doyle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 bitten | conj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 get | nsubj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Doyles | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 letter | det |
| 22 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 letter | compound |
| 23 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 council | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 council | det |
| 26 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 letter | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Jake | punct |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 Jake | advmod |
| 29 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 letter | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bitten | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bite | present · passive | Jake | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Jake | as a sheet; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | sheet | the Doyles | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | present | the Doyles | the warning letter Jake | the council | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from council=Source |
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:9.
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, R8-pos-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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