--- title: Real life: dogs were the first animals people tamed, from wolves, at… — Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself,… · tree and pragmatics description: Real life: dogs were the first animals people tamed, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago, while people were still hunters, long before farming. Who acts: dogs, people. 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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, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:25 # text = Real life: dogs were the first animals people tamed, from wolves, at least 15,000 years ago, while people were still hunters, long before farming. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 4 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 tamed tame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 nmod _ _ 17 15,000 15000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 ago ago ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 farming farm VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the first animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tame** | past | dogs | the first animals *not said here* | | wolves | | ago *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | people | hunters | | | still | long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **farm** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:books:093-justso-cat-1-the-first-friend-and-the-first-servant.lesson:25`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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