--- title: Dogs come from wolves, and people chose which dogs had puppies and o… — Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches,… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs come from wolves, and people chose which dogs had puppies and over many generations made the breeds; this is artificial selection, Darwin's favourite example along with pigeons. Who acts: Dogs, people, this, Darwin. 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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, people, this, Darwin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.lesson:13 # text = Dogs come from wolves, and people chose which dogs had puppies and over many generations made the breeds; this is artificial selection, Darwin's favourite example along with pigeons. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 which which DET WDT PronType=Rel 10 det _ _ 10 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 12 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 over over ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 breeds breed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 selection selection NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 Darwin Darwin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 30 along along ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 pigeons pigeon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **come** | present | Dogs | | | wolves | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **choose** | past | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | which dogs | puppies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | people *not said here* | many generations | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breed=Product | | 5 | **is a** | present | this | artificial selection | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **exemplify** | | Darwin | | | | | along pigeons | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent along=obl | 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:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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