Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals, sentence 12
Dogs were tamed first, then sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs about 10,000 years ago, and later horses, camels and others.
What happens: tame · To what, where: Dogs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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: 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 | 3 tamed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tamed | aux:pass |
| 3 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 tamed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sheep | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sheep | advmod |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tamed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 goats | cc |
| 9 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sheep | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cattle | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 cattle | advmod |
| 12 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sheep | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pigs | cc |
| 14 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cattle | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 10,000 | advmod |
| 16 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 years | nummod |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 sheep | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 horses | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 horses | cc |
| 21 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 horses | advmod |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tamed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 camels | punct |
| 24 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 horses | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 camels | cc |
| 26 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 horses | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tamed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tame | past · passive | Dogs | sheep and goats and cattle and pigs obl; first property | tree rules |
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:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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.
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