Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 8

Dogs still carry wolf behaviours such as howling, digging and guarding food, and some howl along with sirens because the long wail sounds a bit like a howl.

Who acts: Dogs, some, long wail · What happens: carry, dig, guard, howl, sound · To what, where: wolf behaviours, food, bit

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 (Dogs, some, long wail), 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	3 carry	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 carry	advmod
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 behaviours	compound
5	behaviours	behaviour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	8 howling	case
7	as	as	ADP	_	6 such	fixed
8	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 behaviours	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 digging	punct
10	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 howling	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 guarding	cc
12	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 digging	conj
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guarding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 howl	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 howl	cc
16	some	some	PRON	PronType=Ind	17 howl	nsubj
17	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	conj
18	along	along	ADP	_	20 sirens	case
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 sirens	case
20	sirens	siren	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 howl	obl
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 sounds	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wail	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wail	amod
24	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounds	nsubj
25	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carry	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 bit	det
27	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounds	obl:unmarked
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 howl	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 howl	det
30	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounds	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carry	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Dogs	wolf behaviours	still	such howling	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent behaviour=Theme
2	dig	gerund	Dogs not said here				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	guard	gerund	Dogs not said here	food			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Beneficiary
4	howl	present	some			along sirens	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along siren=Location
5	sound	present	the long wail	a bit		like a howl	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:8.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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