--- title: Sheepdogs herd, terriers dig after rats, retrievers carry back shot… — Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds · tree and pragmatics description: Sheepdogs herd, terriers dig after rats, retrievers carry back shot birds gently in soft mouths, and hounds follow scents or chase by sight. Who acts: Sheepdogs, terriers, retrievers, hounds. 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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 (Sheepdogs, terriers, retrievers, hounds), 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:9 # text = Sheepdogs herd, terriers dig after rats, retrievers carry back shot birds gently in soft mouths, and hounds follow scents or chase by sight. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Sheepdogs sheepdog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 herd herd VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 terriers terrier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 retrievers retriever NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 shot shot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 gently gently ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 hounds hound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 scents scent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **herd** | present | Sheepdogs | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **dig** | present | terriers | | | | after rats | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry back** | present | retrievers | shot birds | | soft mouths | | gently *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Value in mouth=Location | | 4 | **follow** | present | hounds | scents | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme | | 5 | **chase** | present | hounds *not said here* | | | | | by sight | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by sight=Trajectory | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/8/) - next →: [Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/)