--- title: The dog was the first animal people tamed, more than 15,000 years ag… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: The dog was the first animal people tamed, more than 15,000 years ago; DNA shows dogs came from an old kind of wolf, not straight from today's grey wolves. Who acts: dog, people, DNA, 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 (dog, people, DNA, 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:10 # text = The dog was the first animal people tamed, more than 15,000 years ago; DNA shows dogs came from an old kind of wolf, not straight from today's grey wolves. # 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 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 17 parataxis _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 tamed tame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 11 than than ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 15,000 15000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ago ago ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 DNA DNA NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 straight straight ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 17 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 | **is a** | past | the dog | the first animal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tame** | participle | people | the first animal *not said here* | | | | ago *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 3 | **show** | present | DNA | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **come** | past | dogs | | | a old kind of wolf | | straight *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from kind=Initial\_Location | 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:10`. **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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