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title: Two dogs that hate each other are often walked at different times; k… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics
description: Two dogs that hate each other are often walked at different times; keeping them apart is a sensible answer. Who acts: Two dogs, keeping. 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 36

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Two dogs that hate each other are often walked at different times; keeping them apart is a sensible answer.

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**Who acts:** Two dogs, keeping · **What happens:** hate, walk, keep, be · **To what, where:** each, Two dogs, neighbours, sensible answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Two dogs, keeping), 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:36
# text = Two dogs that hate each other are often walked at different times; keeping them apart is a sensible answer.
# 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): no change
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obj	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | Two dogs | each |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 2 | **walk** | present · passive |  | Two dogs |  |  | time | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund |  | neighbours *= neighbour* |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | keeping | a sensible answer |  |  |  |  | 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:36`.

**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): no change. **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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