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title: Your dog keeps the wolf's tools: a cold wet nose with hundreds of mi… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Your dog keeps the wolf's tools: a cold wet nose with hundreds of millions of smell receptors, ears that turn to catch the car coming home before anyone else hears it, and a tongue for panting because dogs hardly sweat. Who acts: dog, ears, car, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» of 
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# Wolves and dogs, sentence 2

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Your dog keeps the wolf's tools: a cold wet nose with hundreds of millions of smell receptors, ears that turn to catch the car coming home before anyone else hears it, and a tongue for panting because dogs hardly sweat.

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**Who acts:** dog, ears, car, anyone, tongue, dogs · **What happens:** keep, turn, catch, come, hear, pant · **To what, where:** tools, car, dog

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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 (dog, ears, car, anyone), 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:2
# text = Your dog keeps the wolf's tools: a cold wet nose with hundreds of millions of smell receptors, ears that turn to catch the car coming home before anyone else hears it, and a tongue for panting because dogs hardly sweat.
# 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 ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	receptors	receptor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	nsubj	_	_
32	else	else	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	panting	pant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
41	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	sweat	sweat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **keep** | present | Your dog | the wolf's tools |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | ears |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | ears *not said here* | the car |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | the car *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | present | anyone | dog |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **pant** | gerund | a tongue *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sweat** | present | dogs |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:2`.

**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 ×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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