--- title: People can do the choosing too: by picking which dogs have puppies,… — Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches,… · tree and pragmatics description: People can do the choosing too: by picking which dogs have puppies, we made every breed from a sausage dog to a Great Dane; that is artificial selection. Who acts: People, we, dogs, that. 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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 (People, we, dogs, that), 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:4 # text = People can do the choosing too: by picking which dogs have puppies, we made every breed from a sausage dog to a Great Dane; that is artificial selection. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 choosing choosing NOUN NN _ 3 obj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 10 which which DET WDT PronType=Rel 11 det _ _ 11 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 13 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 breed breed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 sausage sausage NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Dane dane NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 selection selection NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | can | People | the choosing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choosing=Eventuality | | 2 | **pick** | gerund | we *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | which dogs | puppies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | we | every breed | | | | from a sausage dog to a Great Dane | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent breed=Product from dog=Material | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | artificial selection | | | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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