Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 3
That is how we got sheepdogs that herd, terriers that dig after rats, retrievers that bring back birds from water, hounds that follow a scent and greyhounds built to sprint.
Who acts: That, we, sheepdogs, terriers, retrievers, hounds · What happens: be, get, herd, dig, bring back, follow · To what, where: sheepdogs, birds, water, scent, greyhounds
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 (That, we, sheepdogs, terriers), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 how | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 how | cop |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sheepdogs | sheepdog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 herd | nsubj |
| 8 | herd | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sheepdogs | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 terriers | punct |
| 10 | terriers | terrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sheepdogs | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dig | nsubj |
| 12 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 terriers | acl:relcl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 rats | case |
| 14 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dig | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 retrievers | punct |
| 16 | retrievers | retriever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sheepdogs | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 retrievers | acl:relcl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 bring | advmod |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bring | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hounds | punct |
| 24 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sheepdogs | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 follow | nsubj |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hounds | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 scent | det |
| 28 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 follow | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 greyhounds | cc |
| 30 | greyhounds | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 scent | conj |
| 31 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 greyhounds | acl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 sprint | mark |
| 33 | sprint | sprint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 built | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 how | punct |
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 | is | present | That | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | we | sheepdogs and terriers and retrievers and hounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheepdog=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | herd | present | sheepdogs and terriers and retrievers and hounds | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | dig | present | terriers | after rats | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bring back | present | retrievers | birds | water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme from water=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | follow | present | hounds | a scent and greyhounds | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | build | participle | greyhounds not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | sprint | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:3.
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 ×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.
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