--- title: Dingoes came to Australia with people thousands of years ago, went w… — Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with do… · tree and pragmatics description: Dingoes came to Australia with people thousands of years ago, went wild, and are now top predators there; they howl but rarely bark. Who acts: Dingoes. 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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 (Dingoes), 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:22 # text = Dingoes came to Australia with people thousands of years ago, went wild, and are now top predators there; they howl but rarely bark. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Dingoes dingo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 now now ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 howl howl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 bark bark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **come** | past | Dingoes | | | Australia | | with people; ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to australia=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **go** | past | Dingoes *not said here* | | | | | wild *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Dingoes *not said here* | top predators | | there | now | | tree rules | | 4 | **howl** | present | Dingoes *= dingo* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bark** | present | Dingoes *= dingo* *not said here* | | | | | rarely *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:22`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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