--- title: Never climb into a dog's garden or yard, not for a dare, a ball or a… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: Never climb into a dog's garden or yard, not for a dare, a ball or a dropped ice cream: knock and ask the owner. Who acts: you. 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 cl --- [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/28/) [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/) / 28 # The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 28 Never climb into a dog's garden or yard, not for a dare, a ball or a dropped ice cream: knock and ask the owner. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not climb, drop, knock, ask · **To what, where:** garden, owner 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 (you), 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:28 # text = Never climb into a dog's garden or yard, not for a dare, a ball or a dropped ice cream: knock and ask the owner. # 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): no change 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 climb climb VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dare dare NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 21 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 24 knock knock VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | a dog's garden or yard | | for a dare and a ball or a dropped ice cream | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | | 2 | **drop** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **knock** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | the owner | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | 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:28`. **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): no change. **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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