--- title: Some border collies have learned the names of over a thousand toys,… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: Some border collies have learned the names of over a thousand toys, but most dogs understand tone of voice more than exact words. Who acts: most dogs. 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/16/) [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/) / 16 # How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 16 Some border collies have learned the names of over a thousand toys, but most dogs understand tone of voice more than exact words. **Who acts:** most dogs · **What happens:** learn, understand, name, intonate · **To what, where:** border collies, tone, thousand toys, voice 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 (most dogs), 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:16 # text = Some border collies have learned the names of over a thousand toys, but most dogs understand tone of voice more than exact words. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 collies collie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 16 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present · perfect · passive | | some border collies | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **understand** | present | most dogs | tone of voice | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus | | 3 | **name** | | | thousand toys | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **intonate** | | | voice | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:16`. **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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