--- title: Jake isn't bitten, but he's white as a sheet, and it's the Doyles wh… — The bulldog next door who never likes you · tree and pragmatics description: Jake isn't bitten, but he's white as a sheet, and it's the Doyles who get the warning letter from the council, not Jake. Who acts: Jake, sheet, Doyles. 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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 (Jake, sheet, Doyles), 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:9 # text = Jake isn't bitten, but he's white as a sheet, and it's the Doyles who get the warning letter from the council, not Jake. # 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 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sheet sheet NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:expl 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Doyles Doyle PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **bite** | present · passive | | Jake | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Jake | | | | | as a sheet; white *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | sheet | the Doyles | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | present | the Doyles | the warning letter Jake | | the council | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from council=Source | 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:9`. **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. 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