--- title: Wolves that were less afraid came near camps for scraps, the tamest… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: Wolves that were less afraid came near camps for scraps, the tamest stayed and had puppies, and over thousands of years they became dogs that read our faces and follow our pointing fingers. Who acts: Wolves, tamest, dogs. 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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 (Wolves, tamest, dogs), 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:1 # text = Wolves that were less afraid came near camps for scraps, the tamest stayed and had puppies, and over thousands of years they became dogs that read our faces and follow our pointing fingers. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 8 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 camps camp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 scraps scrap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tamest tame ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Wolves | | | | | afraid, less *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | Wolves | | | camps | | for scraps | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near camp=Location | | 3 | **stay** | past | the tamest | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | the tamest *not said here* | puppies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Patient | | 5 | **become** | past | Wolves *= wolf* | dogs | | thousands of years | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **read** | past | dogs | our faces | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Topic | | 7 | **follow** | present | dogs *not said here* | our pointing fingers | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | 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:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×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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