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title: Some dogs never warm up to you however kind you are, and you can sti… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics
description: Some dogs never warm up to you however kind you are, and you can still be good neighbours from a distance. Who acts: dogs, you. 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 cl
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# The bulldog next door who never likes you, sentence 35

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Some dogs never warm up to you however kind you are, and you can still be good neighbours from a distance.

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**Who acts:** dogs, you · **What happens:** not warm up, be · **To what, where:** you, good neighbours

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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, you), 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:35
# text = Some dogs never warm up to you however kind you are, and you can still be good neighbours from a distance.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	warm	warm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **warm up** | present | some dogs |  | you |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to you=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | however, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | can | you | good neighbours |  |  | still | from a distance | 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:35`.

**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, R8-pos-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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