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title: Tank and Biscuit, the pug from across the road, bark at each other o… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics
description: Tank and Biscuit, the pug from across the road, bark at each other on every walk, so their owners now walk them at different times. Who acts: owners. 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 
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# The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 18

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Tank and Biscuit, the pug from across the road, bark at each other on every walk, so their owners now walk them at different times.

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**Who acts:** owners · **What happens:** bark, walk · **To what, where:** biscuits

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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 (owners), 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:18
# text = Tank and Biscuit, the pug from across the road, bark at each other on every walk, so their owners now walk them at different times.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Biscuit	Biscuit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pug	pug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bark	bark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	owners	owner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | present |  |  |  |  |  | on every walk; at each | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at each=Stimulus |
| 2 | **walk** | present | biscuits's owners | biscuits *= biscuit* |  |  | now; time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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:18`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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