Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 16

Dogs understand human pointing better than chimpanzees and wolves do, after thousands of years living with people, and they often look at the left side of a person's face.

Who acts: Dogs, years, chimpanzees · What happens: understand, live, look · To what, where: human pointing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» of the biology 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, years, chimpanzees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 understand	nsubj
2	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pointing	amod
4	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 understand	obj
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 understand	advmod
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 do	mark
7	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wolves	cc
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chimpanzees	conj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 thousands	case
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thousands	nmod
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 years	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 people	case
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 living	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 look	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 look	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 look	nsubj
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
23	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 understand	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 side	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 side	det
26	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 side	amod
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 face	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 person	det
30	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 face	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 person	case
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 side	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 understand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand	present	Dogs	human pointing	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pointing=Stimulus
2	live	gerund	years not said here		with people	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location
3	look	present	chimpanzees = chimpanzee		at the left side of a person's face; often property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at side=Theme

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, 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:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson:16.

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.

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