--- title: Dogs understand human pointing better than chimpanzees and wolves do… — Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffe… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs understand human pointing better than chimpanzees and wolves do, after thousands of years living with people, and they often look at the left side of a person's face. Who acts: Dogs, years, chimpanzees. A sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» of the bio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/) / 16 # Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs, sentence 16 Dogs understand human pointing better than chimpanzees and wolves do, after thousands of years living with people, and they often look at the left side of a person's face. **Who acts:** Dogs, years, chimpanzees · **What happens:** understand, live, look · **To what, where:** human pointing This is a sentence of the lesson «Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs» 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, years, chimpanzees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson:16 # text = Dogs understand human pointing better than chimpanzees and wolves do, after thousands of years living with people, and they often look at the left side of a person's face. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 6 than than SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 chimpanzees chimpanzee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **understand** | present | Dogs | human pointing | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer pointing=Stimulus | | 2 | **live** | gerund | years *not said here* | | | | | with people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location | | 3 | **look** | present | chimpanzees *= chimpanzee* | | | | | at the left side of a person's face; often *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at side=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/15/) - next →: [Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/)