--- title: Sam's dad teaches the real rule for a dog running at you: stand stil… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: Sam's dad teaches the real rule for a dog running at you: stand still like a tree, arms in, look away. Who acts: dad, dog. A sentence of the lesson «The bulldog next door who never likes you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The bulldog next door who never likes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you/) / 14 # The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 14 Sam's dad teaches the real rule for a dog running at you: stand still like a tree, arms in, look away. **Who acts:** dad, dog · **What happens:** teach, run, stand, look away · **To what, where:** real rule 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 (dad, dog), 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:14 # text = Sam's dad teaches the real rule for a dog running at you: stand still like a tree, arms in, look away. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 22 in in ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Sam's dad | the real rule | | | | for a dog | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rule=Recipient | | 2 | **run** | gerund | a dog *not said here* | | | | | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | | 3 | **stand** | infinitive | | | | | still | like a tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look away** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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, 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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