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title: A dog can be gentle with its own family and fierce with strangers; t… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog can be gentle with its own family and fierce with strangers; the owner's trust does not pass to you. Who acts: dog, trust, owner. 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 
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# The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 33

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A dog can be gentle with its own family and fierce with strangers; the owner's trust does not pass to you.

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**Who acts:** dog, trust, owner · **What happens:** be, not pass, trust · **To what, where:** you

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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 (dog, trust, owner), 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:33
# text = A dog can be gentle with its own family and fierce with strangers; the owner's trust does not pass to you.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | a dog |  |  |  |  | with dog's own family; gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with strangers | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **pass** | present · do-support | the owner's trust |  | you |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **trust** |  | the owner |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:33`.

**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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