--- title: Mr Doyle says Tank is soft as butter with him and rolls over for bel… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: Mr Doyle says Tank is soft as butter with him and rolls over for belly rubs — but when Maddie rolls over on the pavement herself to copy the trick, Tank only growls harder: his trust in Mr Doyle doesn't pass to strangers. Who acts: Mr Doyle, Tank, Maddie, trust. 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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 (Mr Doyle, Tank, Maddie, trust), 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:16 # text = Mr Doyle says Tank is soft as butter with him and rolls over for belly rubs — but when Maddie rolls over on the pavement herself to copy the trick, Tank only growls harder: his trust in Mr Doyle doesn't pass to strangers. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mr mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 2 Doyle Doyle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Tank tank PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 13 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 rubs rub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 17 — - PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 over over ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Tank Tank PROPN NNP _ 34 nsubj _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 growls growl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 35 harder hard ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ _ 36 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 Doyle Doyle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ _ 42 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:conj 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | Mr Doyle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Tank | | | | | as butter with Doyle; soft *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **roll** | present | Tank *not said here* | | | belly rubs | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rub=Trajectory | | 4 | **roll over** | present | Maddie | Maddie | | the pavement | | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on pavement=Trajectory | | 5 | **copy** | to-infinitive | Maddie *not said here* | the trick | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | | 6 | **growl** | present | Tank | | | | | hard *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **pass** | present · do-support | Doyle's trust in Mr | | | strangers | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stranger=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **trust** | | Doyle | | | | | in Mr | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl | 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:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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