Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 10

The dog was the first animal people tamed, more than 15,000 years ago; DNA shows dogs came from an old kind of wolf, not straight from today's grey wolves.

Who acts: dog, people, DNA, dogs · What happens: be, tame, show, come · To what, where: first animal, old kind · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dog, people, DNA, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shows	parataxis
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tamed	nsubj
8	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 animal	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ago	punct
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	12 15,000	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 more	fixed
12	15,000	15000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 tamed	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 shows	punct
16	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shows	nsubj
17	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shows	ccomp
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 kind	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 kind	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kind	amod
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 wolf	case
25	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 straight	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 straight	advmod
28	straight	straight	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	33 wolves	case
30	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wolves	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 today	case
32	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wolves	amod
33	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 straight	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 shows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the dog	the first animal			tree rules
2	tame	participle	people	the first animal not said here		ago property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
3	show	present	DNA				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	dogs		a old kind of wolf	straight property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kind=Initial_Location

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:10.

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. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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