--- title: Dogs have also spent thousands of years living with people, and they… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs have also spent thousands of years living with people, and they became experts at our faces, voices and pointing fingers, better at this one thing than chimpanzees. Who acts: Dogs, thousands. 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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, thousands), 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:5 # text = Dogs have also spent thousands of years living with people, and they became experts at our faces, voices and pointing fingers, better at this one thing than chimpanzees. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 xcomp _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 chimpanzees chimpanzee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | present · perfect | Dogs | thousands of years | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Asset | | 2 | **live** | gerund | Dogs *not said here* | | | | | with people | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location | | 3 | **become** | past | thousands *= thousand* | experts at our faces and voices and pointing fingers | | | | well *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:5`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. 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