--- title: Dogs learn the sound of each car engine, and they hear a dog whistle… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs learn the sound of each car engine, and they hear a dog whistle that is too high for people to hear. Who acts: Dogs, sounds, dog whistle, people. A sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/) / 11 # How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 11 Dogs learn the sound of each car engine, and they hear a dog whistle that is too high for people to hear. **Who acts:** Dogs, sounds, dog whistle, people · **What happens:** learn, hear, be · **To what, where:** sound, dog whistle This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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 (Dogs, sounds, dog whistle, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:11 # text = Dogs learn the sound of each car engine, and they hear a dog whistle that is too high for people to hear. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.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 ×3 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 7 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **learn** | present | Dogs | the sound of each car engine | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | | 2 | **hear** | present | sounds *= sound* | a dog whistle | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whistle=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | a dog whistle | | | | | high *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | people | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:11`. **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 ×3. **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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