--- title: And Kieran swears «rottweilers are killers» — until he meets Maddie'… — The dog that wags at last, and the one that neve… · tree and pragmatics description: And Kieran swears «rottweilers are killers» — until he meets Maddie's neighbour's rottweiler, owner there, and it flops on its back for a belly rub. Who acts: Kieran, rottweilers, owner. 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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 (Kieran, rottweilers, owner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:26 # text = And Kieran swears «rottweilers are killers» — until he meets Maddie's neighbour's rottweiler, owner there, and it flops on its back for a belly rub. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swears swear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 rottweilers rottweiler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 killers killer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 9 — - PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 until until SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 13 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 rottweiler rottweiler NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 flops flop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 rub rub NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swear** | present | Kieran | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | rottweilers | killers | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **meet** | present | Kieran | Maddie's neighbour's rottweiler | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rottweiler=Co-Agent | | 4 | **flop** | present | owner | | | owner's back | | for a belly rub | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | 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:459-the-dog-that-wags-at-last-and-the-one-that-never-does.lesson:26`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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