The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs, sentence 18

Dogs were the first animals people tamed, from wolves that were less afraid of people, but where and when is still argued.

Who acts: people, wolves · What happens: be, tame, argue · To what, where: first animals, wolves

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chinese zodiac: the twelve real animals behind the signs» 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 (people, wolves), 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	5 animals	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animals	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tamed	nsubj
7	tamed	tame	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 wolves	case
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tamed	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 afraid	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 afraid	cop
13	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 afraid	advmod
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wolves	acl:relcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 people	case
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 afraid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 argued	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 argued	cc
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 argued	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 argued	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 where	conj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 argued	aux:pass
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 argued	advmod
24	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tamed	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 animals	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · passive		the first animals				tree rules
2	tame	past	people	the first animals not said here	wolves			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
3	is	past	wolves				of people; afraid, less property	tree rules
4	argue speech: disagree	present · passive	people not said here			still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»

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:382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs.lesson:18.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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