Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 14
Dogs came from wolves tamed more than 15,000 years ago, and even a Chihuahua has 42 teeth like a wolf.
Who acts: Dogs, Chihuahua · What happens: come, tame, have · To what, where: wolves, 42 teeth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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, Chihuahua), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 wolves | case |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wolves | acl |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 8 15,000 | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 more | fixed |
| 8 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 tamed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 has | cc |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 Chihuahua | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Chihuahua | det |
| 15 | Chihuahua | Chihuahua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 17 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 teeth | nummod |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 has | obj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 wolf | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wolf | det |
| 21 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teeth | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Dogs | wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tame | participle | wolves not said here | ago property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a Chihuahua | 42 teeth | like a wolf | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.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): no change. 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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