Wolves and dogs, sentence 0

Every pet dog, from a tiny chihuahua to a Great Dane, comes from wolves that began living alongside people more than 15,000 years ago; people kept the friendliest ones, and over thousands of years they became dogs.

Who acts: pet dog, wolves, people · What happens: come, begin, live, keep, become · To what, where: wolves, friendliest ones, dogs, thousands

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» 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 (pet dog, wolves, 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dog	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	compound
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chihuahua	punct
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 chihuahua	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chihuahua	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chihuahua	amod
8	chihuahua	chihuahua	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 Dane	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Dane	det
11	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Dane	amod
12	Dane	dane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chihuahua	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dog	punct
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 wolves	case
16	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 comes	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wolves	acl:relcl
19	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 began	xcomp
20	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	21 people	case
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 living	obl
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 15,000	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 more	fixed
24	15,000	15000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 ago	obl:unmarked
26	ago	ago	ADV	_	21 people	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 kept	nsubj
29	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 comes	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ones	det
31	friendliest	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 ones	amod
32	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 kept	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 became	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 became	cc
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 thousands	case
36	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 became	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 years	case
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 thousands	nmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 became	nsubj
40	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 kept	conj
41	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 became	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	every pet dog from a tiny chihuahua to a Great Dane		wolves		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	wolves				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	live	gerund	wolves not said here			alongside people	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside people=Location
4	keep	past	people	the friendliest ones			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	become	past	people	dogs	thousands of years		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:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:0.

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, R8-pos-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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