Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 14

Newborn puppies cannot see or hear for about the first two weeks and rely on smell, touch and their mother's warmth; at about eight weeks they are ready for a new home.

Who acts: Newborn puppies, puppies · What happens: not see, hear, rely, be

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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 (Newborn puppies, puppies), 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	Newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 puppies	amod
2	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 hear	cc
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 weeks	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	13 weeks	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weeks	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 weeks	amod
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 weeks	nummod
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rely	cc
15	rely	rely	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 smell	case
17	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rely	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 touch	punct
19	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smell	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 warmth	cc
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 warmth	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 mother	case
24	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smell	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 ready	punct
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 weeks	case
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 eight	advmod
28	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 weeks	nummod
29	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ready	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ready	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 ready	cop
32	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	parataxis
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 home	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 home	det
35	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 home	amod
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ready	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Newborn puppies	week		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hear	infinitive	Newborn puppies not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	rely	infinitive	Newborn puppies not said here		on smell and touch and puppies's mother's warmth	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on smell=Theme
4	is	present	puppies = puppy	week	for a new home; ready 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, 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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/14/