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title: Dogs that bark a lot can also bite; «all bark and no bite» is not a… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs that bark a lot can also bite; «all bark and no bite» is not a safe rule. Who acts: Dogs, bark. 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.
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# The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 29

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Dogs that bark a lot can also bite; «all bark and no bite» is not a safe rule.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, bark · **What happens:** bark, bite, not be · **To what, where:** lot, safe rule

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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 (Dogs, bark), 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:29
# text = Dogs that bark a lot can also bite; «all bark and no bite» is not a safe rule.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bark	bark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | present | Dogs | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bite** | can | Dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | all bark and no bite | a safe rule |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:29`.

**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): 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.

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

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