--- title: A border collie called Chaser learned the names of over 1,000 toys a… — Animal minds: what dogs and cats feel and unders… · tree and pragmatics description: A border collie called Chaser learned the names of over 1,000 toys and worked out that a new name meant the toy she did not know; most dogs learn only a few. Who acts: border collie, new name, collie, most dogs. 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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 (border collie, new name, collie, most dogs), 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:7 # text = A border collie called Chaser learned the names of over 1,000 toys and worked out that a new name meant the toy she did not know; most dogs learn only a few. # 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 collie collie NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 Chaser chaser PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 31 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | a border collie *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **learn** | past | a border collie | the names of 1,000 toys | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 3 | **work out** | past | a border collie *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | past | a new name | the toy | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Topic | | 5 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | collie | the toy *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer toy=Stimulus | | 6 | **learn** | present | most dogs | a few | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Topic | | 7 | **name** | | | 1,000 toys | | | | | nom name «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:237-animal-minds-what-dogs-and-cats-feel-and-understand-and-do-cats-really-chase-mice.lesson:7`. **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 ×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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