The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 19
Dogs come from wolves tamed more than 15000 years ago and were the first tame animals, while cats came later to farming villages to hunt mice and were honoured as sacred in ancient Egypt.
Who acts: Dogs, cats · What happens: come, tame, be, hunt, honour · To what, where: wolves, first tame animals, farming villages, mice, ancient Egypt
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (Dogs, cats), 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 | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 wolves | case |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | obl |
| 5 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wolves | acl |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 8 15000 | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 more | fixed |
| 8 | 15000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 tamed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 animals | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 animals | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animals | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 animals | amod |
| 15 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | parataxis |
| 21 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 villages | case |
| 23 | farming | farm | NOUN | _ | 24 villages | compound |
| 24 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hunt | mark |
| 26 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 came | advcl |
| 27 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hunt | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 honoured | cc |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 honoured | aux:pass |
| 30 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 came | conj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 sacred | case |
| 32 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 honoured | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Egypt | case |
| 34 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Egypt | amod |
| 35 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 honoured | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Dogs | wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tame | participle | wolves not said here | ago property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Dogs not said here | the first tame animals | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | cats | farming villages | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | hunt | to-infinitive | cats not said here | mice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | ||||
| 6 | honour | past · passive | cats not said here | ancient Egypt | as sacred | 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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:19.
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 ×2. 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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