--- title: Dogs come from wolves tamed more than 15000 years ago and were the f… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs come from wolves tamed more than 15000 years ago and were the first tame animals, while cats came later to farming villages to hunt mice and were honoured as sacred in ancient Egypt. Who acts: Dogs, cats. 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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 (Dogs, cats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:19 # text = Dogs come from wolves tamed more than 15000 years ago and were the first tame animals, while cats came later to farming villages to hunt mice and were honoured as sacred in ancient Egypt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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 ×2 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 tamed tame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 8 advmod _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 15000 15000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 amod _ _ 15 tame tame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 farming farm NOUN NN _ 24 compound _ _ 24 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 27 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 honoured honour VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Dogs | | | wolves | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **tame** | participle | | wolves *not said here* | | | | ago *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | Dogs *not said here* | the first tame animals | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | past | cats | | | farming villages | | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | cats *not said here* | mice | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | | 6 | **honour** | past · passive | cats *not said here* | | | ancient Egypt | | as sacred | tree rules | 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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:19`. **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 ×2. **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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