Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 1

Wolves that were less afraid came near camps for scraps, the tamest stayed and had puppies, and over thousands of years they became dogs that read our faces and follow our pointing fingers.

Who acts: Wolves, tamest, dogs · What happens: be, come, stay, have, become, read · To what, where: camps, puppies, dogs, thousands, faces, pointing fingers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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 (Wolves, tamest, 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	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 afraid	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 afraid	cop
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 afraid	advmod
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wolves	acl:relcl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 camps	case
8	camps	camp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 scraps	case
10	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tamest	det
13	tamest	tame	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 stayed	nsubj
14	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stayed	conj
17	puppies	puppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 thousands	case
21	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 became	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 years	case
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thousands	nmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
26	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 became	xcomp
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 read	nsubj
28	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dogs	acl:relcl
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 faces	nmod:poss
30	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 read	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 follow	cc
32	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 read	conj
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 fingers	nmod:poss
34	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fingers	compound
35	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 follow	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wolves			afraid, less property	tree rules
2	come	past	Wolves		camps	for scraps	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near camp=Location
3	stay	past	the tamest				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	the tamest not said here	puppies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Patient
5	become	past	Wolves = wolf	dogs	thousands of years		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	read	past	dogs	our faces			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic
7	follow	present	dogs not said here	our pointing fingers			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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