How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 5

Dogs have also spent thousands of years living with people, and they became experts at our faces, voices and pointing fingers, better at this one thing than chimpanzees.

Who acts: Dogs, thousands · What happens: spend, live, become · To what, where: thousands, experts

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, thousands), 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	4 spent	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 spent	advmod
4	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spent	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
8	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spent	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 living	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spent	conj
15	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 became	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 faces	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 faces	nmod:poss
18	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 experts	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 voices	punct
20	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 faces	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fingers	cc
22	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fingers	compound
23	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 experts	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 better	punct
25	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 became	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 thing	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 thing	det
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 thing	nummod
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 better	obl
30	than	than	ADP	_	31 chimpanzees	case
31	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 better	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spend	present · perfect	Dogs	thousands of years		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Asset
2	live	gerund	Dogs not said here		with people	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location
3	become	past	thousands = thousand	experts at our faces and voices and pointing fingers	well property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:5.

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 ×2, 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.

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