--- title: Newborn puppies cannot see or hear for about the first two weeks and… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics description: Newborn puppies cannot see or hear for about the first two weeks and rely on smell, touch and their mother's warmth; at about eight weeks they are ready for a new home. Who acts: Newborn puppies, puppies. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Newborn puppies, puppies), 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:14 # text = Newborn puppies cannot see or hear for about the first two weeks and rely on smell, touch and their mother's warmth; at about eight weeks they are ready for a new home. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 rely rely VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | can | Newborn puppies | | | | week | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **hear** | infinitive | Newborn puppies *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **rely** | infinitive | Newborn puppies *not said here* | | | | | on smell and touch and puppies's mother's warmth | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on smell=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | puppies *= puppy* | | | | week | for a new home; ready *property* | 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](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:14`. **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, R7-rel-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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