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title: The dog was the first animal people ever tamed, long before anyone f… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics
description: The dog was the first animal people ever tamed, long before anyone farmed. Who acts: dog, people, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 0

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The dog was the first animal people ever tamed, long before anyone farmed.

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**Who acts:** dog, people, anyone · **What happens:** be, tame, farm · **To what, where:** first animal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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, people, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:0
# text = The dog was the first animal people ever tamed, long before anyone farmed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	tamed	tame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj	_	_
14	farmed	farm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the dog | the first animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tame** | past | people | the first animal *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 3 | **farm** | past | anyone |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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