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title: All pet dogs come from wolves and are still one species; people choo… — Evolution simply: why living things change over… · tree and pragmatics
description: All pet dogs come from wolves and are still one species; people choosing which dogs had puppies, called artificial selection, made chihuahuas and Great Danes in a few thousand years. Who acts: pet dogs, people, dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Evolution simply: why living things change over many gene
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# Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations, sentence 7

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All pet dogs come from wolves and are still one species; people choosing which dogs had puppies, called artificial selection, made chihuahuas and Great Danes in a few thousand years.

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**Who acts:** pet dogs, people, dogs · **What happens:** come, be, choose, have, call, make · **To what, where:** wolves, one species, puppies, artificial selection, chihuahuas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» 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 (pet dogs, people, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:073-evolution-simply.lesson:7
# text = All pet dogs come from wolves and are still one species; people choosing which dogs had puppies, called artificial selection, made chihuahuas and Great Danes in a few thousand years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 073-evolution-simply.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
14	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	det	_	_
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
21	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	chihuahuas	chihuahua	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Danes	dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | all pet dogs |  |  | wolves |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | all pet dogs *not said here* | one species |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | which dogs | puppies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Patient |
| 5 | **call** | participle | people *not said here* | artificial selection |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent selection=Recipient |
| 6 | **make** | past | people | chihuahuas and Great Danes |  |  | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chihuahua=Product |

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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:073-evolution-simply.lesson:7`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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