--- title: Teasing a dog through a fence makes it more dangerous for everyone,… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: Teasing a dog through a fence makes it more dangerous for everyone, and the dog and its owners are the ones who get blamed. Who acts: Teasing, 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 pr --- [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/30/) [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/) / 30 # The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 30 Teasing a dog through a fence makes it more dangerous for everyone, and the dog and its owners are the ones who get blamed. **Who acts:** Teasing, dog · **What happens:** tease, make, be, blame · **To what, where:** dog, fence, ones 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 (Teasing, 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:30 # text = Teasing a dog through a fence makes it more dangerous for everyone, and the dog and its owners are the ones who get blamed. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Teasing tease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | gerund | | a dog | | a fence | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Teasing | dog | | | | dangerous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 3 | **is a** | present | the dog and dog's owners | the ones | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **blame** | present · passive | | the ones | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:30`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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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