Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals, sentence 4
After the dog came sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs, about 10,000 years ago; later horses, camels, llamas and chickens.
Who acts: dog · What happens: come · To what, where: sheep
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: who acts (dog), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 goats | cc |
| 7 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sheep | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cattle | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cattle | advmod |
| 10 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sheep | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pigs | cc |
| 12 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cattle | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ago | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 10,000 | advmod |
| 15 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 horses | punct |
| 19 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 horses | advmod |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 camels | punct |
| 22 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 horses | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 llamas | punct |
| 24 | llamas | llama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 horses | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 chickens | cc |
| 26 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 horses | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | 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 | come | past | the dog | sheep and goats and cattle and pigs | ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sheep=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:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:4.
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.
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