--- title: Dogs still carry wolf behaviours such as howling, digging and guardi… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs still carry wolf behaviours such as howling, digging and guarding food, and some howl along with sirens because the long wail sounds a bit like a howl. Who acts: Dogs, some, long wail. 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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, some, long wail), 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:8 # text = Dogs still carry wolf behaviours such as howling, digging and guarding food, and some howl along with sirens because the long wail sounds a bit like a howl. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 behaviours behaviour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 8 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:mark 7 as as ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 howling howling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 digging dig VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 guarding guard VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 some some PRON DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 17 howl howl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 along along ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 sirens siren NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 wail wail NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 howl howl NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 31 . . 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 | **carry** | present | Dogs | wolf behaviours | | | still | such howling | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent behaviour=Theme | | 2 | **dig** | gerund | Dogs *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **guard** | gerund | Dogs *not said here* | food | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Beneficiary | | 4 | **howl** | present | some | | | | | along sirens | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along siren=Location | | 5 | **sound** | present | the long wail | a bit | | | | like a howl | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:8`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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