--- title: Later Kieran's big brother says bulldogs' jaws «lock» once they bite… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: Later Kieran's big brother says bulldogs' jaws «lock» once they bite; Lily's mum looks it up with her — that's a myth, but any dog bite is serious and needs a grown-up and often a doctor. Who acts: big brother, jaws, mum, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big brother, jaws, mum, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you.lesson:13 # text = Later Kieran's big brother says bulldogs' jaws «lock» once they bite; Lily's mum looks it up with her — that's a myth, but any dog bite is serious and needs a grown-up and often a doctor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×1 1 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 2 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 bulldogs bulldog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ' 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 lock lock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 once once SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 17 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 25 — - PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 27 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 33 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 parataxis _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 40 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 amod _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=40:compound 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 often often ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Kieran's big brother | bulldogs's jaws | | | | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jaw=Topic | | 2 | **lock** *in a quote* | infinitive | bulldogs's jaws *not said here* | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **bite** | present | jaws *= jaw* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look up** | present | Lily's mum | jelly | | | | with Lily | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | any dog bite | | | | | serious *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **need** | present | any dog bite *not said here* | a grown doctor | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme | | 8 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R4-particle ×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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