--- title: If a dog runs at you, stand still like a tree, keep your arms in and… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: If a dog runs at you, stand still like a tree, keep your arms in and look away; staring at it is a challenge. Who acts: dog, staring. 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 ev --- [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/31/) [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/) / 31 # The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 31 If a dog runs at you, stand still like a tree, keep your arms in and look away; staring at it is a challenge. **Who acts:** dog, staring · **What happens:** run, stand, keep, look away, stare, be · **To what, where:** arms, challenge 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 (dog, staring), 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:31 # text = If a dog runs at you, stand still like a tree, keep your arms in and look away; staring at it is a challenge. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 in in ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 challenge challenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present | a dog | | | | | at you | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Trajectory | | 2 | **stand** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | | | | still | like a tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | your arms | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 4 | **look away** | infinitive | a dog *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **stare** | gerund | | | | | | at dog | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | staring | a challenge | | | | | tree rules | 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:31`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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