Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 1

Dogs have lived with people for thousands of years and have become experts at reading us: our pointing fingers, faces and voices.

Who acts: Dogs, experts · What happens: live, become, read · To what, where: experts, pointing fingers, us

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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, experts), 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 lived	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	aux
3	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 thousands	case
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thousands	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 become	cc
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 become	aux
12	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 lived	conj
13	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	xcomp
14	at	at	SCONJ	_	15 reading	mark
15	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 experts	acl
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 reading	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 fingers	punct
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fingers	nmod:poss
19	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fingers	compound
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reading	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 faces	punct
22	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fingers	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 voices	cc
24	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fingers	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	live	present · perfect	Dogs			with people; for thousands of years	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location
2	become	present · perfect	Dogs not said here	experts			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	read	gerund	experts not said here	our pointing fingers and faces and voices	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient finger=Topic

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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:1.

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): 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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