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title: One could almost stand under the other, yet they greet each other as… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics
description: One could almost stand under the other, yet they greet each other as dogs, because they are one species. Who acts: One, chihuahua. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 1

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One could almost stand under the other, yet they greet each other as dogs, because they are one species.

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**Who acts:** One, chihuahua · **What happens:** stand, greet, be · **To what, where:** other, each, one species

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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 (One, chihuahua), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:1
# text = One could almost stand under the other, yet they greet each other as dogs, because they are one species.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obj	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | could | One |  |  | the other |  | almost *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under other=Location |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | chihuahua | each |  |  |  | as dogs | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent each=Theme as dog=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | present | chihuahua | one species |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:1`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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