How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 11

Dogs learn the sound of each car engine, and they hear a dog whistle that is too high for people to hear.

Who acts: Dogs, sounds, dog whistle, people · What happens: learn, hear, be · To what, where: sound, dog whistle

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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, sounds, dog whistle, people), 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 learn	nsubj
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 learn	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 engine	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 engine	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 engine	compound
8	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	nsubj
12	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 learn	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 whistle	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whistle	compound
15	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 high	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 high	cop
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 high	advmod
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 whistle	acl:relcl
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 hear	mark
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hear	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hear	mark
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 high	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learn	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	present	Dogs	the sound of each car engine		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic
2	hear	present	sounds = sound	a dog whistle		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whistle=Stimulus
3	is	present	a dog whistle		high property	tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive	people			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:11.

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 ×3. 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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