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title: Dogs hear sounds much quieter and higher than people can and turn th… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs hear sounds much quieter and higher than people can and turn their ears with many muscles. Who acts: Dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wolves and dogs, sentence 14

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Dogs hear sounds much quieter and higher than people can and turn their ears with many muscles.

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**Who acts:** Dogs · **What happens:** hear, turn · **To what, where:** sounds, ears

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:14
# text = Dogs hear sounds much quieter and higher than people can and turn their ears with many muscles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 024-wolves-and-dogs.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 ×3
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:mark
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:aux
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Dogs | sounds |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | Dogs *not said here* | people's ears |  |  |  | with many muscles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |

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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.

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**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:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:14`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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