--- title: Dogs vary in size more than any other kind of mammal, and small dogs… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs vary in size more than any other kind of mammal, and small dogs usually live longer than big ones. Who acts: Dogs, small dogs. 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 prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Dogs from wolves to best friends: livi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today/) / 13 # Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 13 Dogs vary in size more than any other kind of mammal, and small dogs usually live longer than big ones. **Who acts:** Dogs, small dogs · **What happens:** vary, live · **To what, where:** size 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, small 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:13 # text = Dogs vary in size more than any other kind of mammal, and small dogs usually live longer than big ones. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 vary vary VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj 5 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 usually usually ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **vary** | present | Dogs | | | size | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **live** | present | small dogs | | | | | long, usually *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:13`. **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): R7-rel-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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