--- title: He was a rescue: someone kept him shut in a shed for two years, so n… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: He was a rescue: someone kept him shut in a shed for two years, so now anyone near his gate is trouble as far as he's concerned. Who acts: Doyle, someone, anyone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Doyle, someone, anyone), 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:6 # text = He was a rescue: someone kept him shut in a shed for two years, so now anyone near his gate is trouble as far as he's concerned. # 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 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 shed shed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 18 now now ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 nsubj _ _ 20 near near ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 concerned concerned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **is a** | past | Doyle | a rescue | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | past | someone | Doyle | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **shut** | participle | Doyle *not said here* | | | a shed | year | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | anyone | trouble | | | | far *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | Doyle | | | | | concerned *property* | 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:6`. **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. 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