The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 21
Dogs were tamed first, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago; cows came about 10,000 years ago and horses only about 5,500 years ago, so Kipling's order Dog, Horse, Cow is not the real one.
Who acts: cows, order Dog, Kipling · What happens: tame, come about, not be, order · To what, where: Dogs, wolves, real one
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (cows, order Dog, Kipling), 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 wolves | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wolves | case |
| 7 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tamed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ago | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 least | case |
| 10 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 15,000 | nmod |
| 11 | 15,000 | 15000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 tamed | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 15 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tamed | parataxis |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 10,000 | advmod |
| 18 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ago | cc |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ago | nsubj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 about | advmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 5,500 | advmod |
| 25 | 5,500 | 5,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 years | nummod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 16 came | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 one | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 one | advmod |
| 30 | Kipling | Kipling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 order | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Kipling | case |
| 32 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Dog | compound |
| 33 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 one | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Horse | punct |
| 35 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Dog | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Cow | punct |
| 37 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Dog | conj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 one | cop |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 one | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 one | det |
| 41 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 one | amod |
| 42 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | 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 | wolves | ago, first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | come about | past | cows | ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | order Dog and Horse and Cow | the real one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order | Kipling | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:21.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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