--- title: All dogs come from wolves that started living near people more than… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics description: All dogs come from wolves that started living near people more than fifteen thousand years ago; much later people chose which dogs had puppies, keeping the ones best at a job or with a look they liked. Who acts: dogs, wolves, people. 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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 (dogs, wolves, people), 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:2 # text = All dogs come from wolves that started living near people more than fifteen thousand years ago; much later people chose which dogs had puppies, keeping the ones best at a job or with a look they liked. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 near near ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 12 than than ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 compound _ _ 14 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 23 det _ _ 23 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 25 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **come** | present | all dogs | | | wolves | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **start** | past | wolves | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **live** | gerund | wolves *not said here* | | | | | near people | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near people=Location | | 4 | **choose** | past | people | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | which dogs | puppies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Patient | | 6 | **keep** | gerund | people *not said here* | the ones | | | | good *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 7 | **like** | past | dogs *= dog* | a look *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:2`. **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 ×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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