--- title: In Siberia scientists bred only the tamest foxes for over 60 years;… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: In Siberia scientists bred only the tamest foxes for over 60 years; the foxes became friendly and wagged their tails, and some even got floppy ears and patchy coats. Who acts: scientists, foxes, some. 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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 (scientists, foxes, some), 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:11 # text = In Siberia scientists bred only the tamest foxes for over 60 years; the foxes became friendly and wagged their tails, and some even got floppy ears and patchy coats. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Siberia Siberia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bred breed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tamest tame ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 wagged wag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 25 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 27 floppy floppy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 patchy patchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **breed** | past | scientists | the tamest foxes | | Siberia | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **become** | past | the foxes | | | | | friendly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **wag** | past | the foxes *not said here* | foxes's tails | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 4 | **get** | past | some | floppy ears and patchy coats | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | 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:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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