--- title: The idea that bulldogs' jaws «lock» shut is a myth, but any dog bite… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: The idea that bulldogs' jaws «lock» shut is a myth, but any dog bite is serious and needs an adult and often a doctor. Who acts: jaws, idea, dog bite. 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 --- [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/32/) [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/) / 32 # The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 32 The idea that bulldogs' jaws «lock» shut is a myth, but any dog bite is serious and needs an adult and often a doctor. **Who acts:** jaws, idea, dog bite · **What happens:** lock, shut, be, need · **To what, where:** idea, myth, adult 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 (jaws, idea, dog bite), 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:32 # text = The idea that bulldogs' jaws «lock» shut is a myth, but any dog bite is serious and needs an adult and often a doctor. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 bulldogs bulldog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 ' 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 lock lock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 10 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 xcomp _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 17 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lock** *in a quote* | infinitive | bulldogs's jaws | the idea *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **shut** | participle | bulldogs's jaws *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | the idea | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | any dog bite | | | | | serious *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **need** | present | any dog bite *not said here* | a adult and a doctor | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adult=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:32`. **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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