Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 11
In Siberia scientists bred only the tamest foxes for over 60 years; the foxes became friendly and wagged their tails, and some even got floppy ears and patchy coats.
Who acts: scientists, foxes, some · What happens: breed, become, wag, get · To what, where: tamest foxes, Siberia, tails, floppy ears
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 (scientists, foxes, some), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Siberia | case |
| 2 | Siberia | Siberia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bred | obl |
| 3 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bred | nsubj |
| 4 | bred | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 became | parataxis |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 foxes | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foxes | det |
| 7 | tamest | tame | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 foxes | amod |
| 8 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bred | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 60 | advmod |
| 11 | 60 | 60 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bred | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 foxes | det |
| 15 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 became | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wagged | cc |
| 19 | wagged | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 became | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tails | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wagged | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 got | cc |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 got | nsubj |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 became | conj |
| 27 | floppy | floppy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ears | amod |
| 28 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 got | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 coats | cc |
| 30 | patchy | patchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 coats | amod |
| 31 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ears | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bred | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | past | scientists | the tamest foxes | Siberia | year | tree rules | ||
| 2 | become | past | the foxes | friendly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wag | past | the foxes not said here | foxes's tails | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | past | some | floppy ears and patchy coats | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus |
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:11.
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): R6-punct-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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