How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 16
Some border collies have learned the names of over a thousand toys, but most dogs understand tone of voice more than exact words.
Who acts: most dogs · What happens: learn, understand, name, intonate · To what, where: border collies, tone, thousand toys, voice
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 (most dogs), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 collies | det |
| 2 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collies | compound |
| 3 | collies | collie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 learned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | aux |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 names | det |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 learned | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 toys | case |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 thousand | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thousand | det |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 toys | nummod |
| 12 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 names | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 understand | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 understand | cc |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 dogs | amod |
| 16 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 understand | nsubj |
| 17 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learned | conj |
| 18 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 understand | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tone | nmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 understand | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 words | case |
| 23 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 words | amod |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 more | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · perfect · passive | some border collies | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | understand | present | most dogs | tone of voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | name | thousand toys | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | intonate | voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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: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): 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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