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title: Dogs have a special eyebrow muscle, which wolves mostly lack, that l… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs have a special eyebrow muscle, which wolves mostly lack, that lifts the inner eyebrow to make puppy eyes. Who acts: Dogs, wolves, special eyebrow muscle. 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 d
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# Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 12

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Dogs have a special eyebrow muscle, which wolves mostly lack, that lifts the inner eyebrow to make puppy eyes.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, wolves, special eyebrow muscle · **What happens:** have, lack, lift, make · **To what, where:** special eyebrow muscle, inner eyebrow, puppy eyes

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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 (Dogs, wolves, special eyebrow muscle), 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:12
# text = Dogs have a special eyebrow muscle, which wolves mostly lack, that lifts the inner eyebrow to make puppy eyes.
# 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	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	eyebrow	eyebrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	lack	lack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	eyebrow	eyebrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Dogs | a special eyebrow muscle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient |
| 2 | **lack** | present | wolves | a special eyebrow muscle |  |  |  | mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lift** | present | a special eyebrow muscle | the inner eyebrow |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyebrow=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | a special eyebrow muscle *not said here* | puppy eyes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product |

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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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**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.

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