--- title: Dogs have lived with people for thousands of years and have become e… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs have lived with people for thousands of years and have become experts at reading us: our pointing fingers, faces and voices. Who acts: Dogs, experts. 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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, experts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:1 # text = Dogs have lived with people for thousands of years and have become experts at reading us: our pointing fingers, faces and voices. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 13 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 14 at at SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ _ 16 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present · perfect | Dogs | | | | | with people; for thousands of years | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location | | 2 | **become** | present · perfect | Dogs *not said here* | experts | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **read** | gerund | experts *not said here* | our pointing fingers and faces and voices | us | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient finger=Topic | 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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:1`. **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): 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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