--- title: Even young puppies can follow a human pointing finger, and dogs see… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: Even young puppies can follow a human pointing finger, and dogs see blues and yellows well but not reds and greens. Who acts: young puppies, 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 tr --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today, sentence 14 Even young puppies can follow a human pointing finger, and dogs see blues and yellows well but not reds and greens. **Who acts:** young puppies, dogs · **What happens:** follow, see · **To what, where:** human pointing finger, blues 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 (young puppies, 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:14 # text = Even young puppies can follow a human pointing finger, and dogs see blues and yellows well but not reds and greens. # 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 Even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 2 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 puppies puppy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 pointing pointing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 blues blue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 yellows yellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 reds red NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 greens green NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **follow** | can | young puppies | a human pointing finger | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | dogs | blues and yellows but reds and greens | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blue=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:14`. **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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