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title: A chihuahua and a Great Dane are the same species and could in theor… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics
description: A chihuahua and a Great Dane are the same species and could in theory have puppies together. Who acts: chihuahua, same species. 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 claus
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# Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 7

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A chihuahua and a Great Dane are the same species and could in theory have puppies together.

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**Who acts:** chihuahua, same species · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** same species, puppies, theory

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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 (chihuahua, same species), 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:7
# text = A chihuahua and a Great Dane are the same species and could in theory have puppies together.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chihuahua	chihuahua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Dane	dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:aux
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a chihuahua and a Great Dane | the same species |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | could | the same species | puppies |  | theory |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Patient |

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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:7`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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