--- title: Dogs learn routines and read tiny signs, like shoes picked up or a c… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs learn routines and read tiny signs, like shoes picked up or a coat touched, so they seem to know when it is time for a walk. Who acts: Dogs, tiny signs, coat. 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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, tiny signs, coat), 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:17 # text = Dogs learn routines and read tiny signs, like shoes picked up or a coat touched, so they seem to know when it is time for a walk. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 routines routine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . 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 | routines | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent routine=Topic | | 2 | **read** | present | Dogs *not said here* | tiny signs | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Topic | | 3 | **pick up** | participle · passive | tiny signs *not said here* | shoes | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **touch** | participle · passive | | a coat | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 5 | **seem** | present | Dogs *= dog* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **know** | to-infinitive | Dogs *= dog* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | coat | time | | | | for a walk | tree rules | 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:17`. **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, R8-pos-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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