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title: Dogs were tamed first, then sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs ab… — Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs were tamed first, then sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs about 10,000 years ago, and later horses, camels and others. A sentence of the lesson «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals, sentence 12

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Dogs were tamed first, then sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs about 10,000 years ago, and later horses, camels and others.

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**What happens:** tame · **To what, where:** Dogs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:12
# text = Dogs were tamed first, then sheep and goats, then cattle and pigs about 10,000 years ago, and later horses, camels and others.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	tamed	tame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
16	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **tame** | past · passive |  | Dogs |  |  |  | sheep and goats and cattle and pigs *obl*; first *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:293-horses-cattle-camels-and-chickens-how-people-tamed-animals.lesson:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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