Wolves and dogs, sentence 14

Dogs hear sounds much quieter and higher than people can and turn their ears with many muscles.

Who acts: Dogs · What happens: hear, turn · To what, where: sounds, ears

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 (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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obj
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 quieter	advmod
5	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 hear	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 higher	cc
7	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 quieter	conj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 can	mark
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 can	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 quieter	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turn	cc
12	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 higher	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ears	nmod:poss
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turn	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 muscles	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 muscles	amod
17	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turn	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Dogs	sounds				quiet property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	turn	infinitive	Dogs not said here	people's ears				with many muscles	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme

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:14.

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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