--- title: Dogs follow human pointing very well, even as puppies, while wolves… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs follow human pointing very well, even as puppies, while wolves and chimpanzees find it hard. Who acts: Dogs, wolves. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/6/) [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/) / [Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice/) / 6 # Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?), sentence 6 Dogs follow human pointing very well, even as puppies, while wolves and chimpanzees find it hard. **Who acts:** Dogs, wolves · **What happens:** follow, find · **To what, where:** human pointing, pointing This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and understand (and do cats really chase mice?)» 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, wolves), 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:6 # text = Dogs follow human pointing very well, even as puppies, while wolves and chimpanzees find it hard. # 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 2 nsubj _ _ 2 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 chimpanzees chimpanzee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 19 . . 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 | **follow** | present | Dogs | human pointing | | | | as puppies; well *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent pointing=Theme as puppy=Value | | 2 | **find** | present | wolves and chimpanzees | pointing | | | | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:6`. **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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