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title: Dogs were tamed first, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago; cows… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs were tamed first, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago; cows came about 10,000 years ago and horses only about 5,500 years ago, so Kipling's order Dog, Horse, Cow is not the real one. Who acts: cows, order Dog, Kipling. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wh
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# The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 21

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Dogs were tamed first, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago; cows came about 10,000 years ago and horses only about 5,500 years ago, so Kipling's order Dog, Horse, Cow is not the real one.

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**Who acts:** cows, order Dog, Kipling · **What happens:** tame, come about, not be, order · **To what, where:** Dogs, wolves, real one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (cows, order Dog, Kipling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:21
# text = Dogs were tamed first, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago; cows came about 10,000 years ago and horses only about 5,500 years ago, so Kipling's order Dog, Horse, Cow is not the real one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
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	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
11	15,000	15000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	5,500	5,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
30	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	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 |  | wolves |  | ago, first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **come about** | past | cows |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | order Dog and Horse and Cow | the real one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **order** |  | Kipling |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:21`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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

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