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title: Dogs were the first tamed animals, long before farming; sheep, goats… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs were the first tamed animals, long before farming; sheep, goats, cattle and pigs came later, and horses much later. Who acts: Dogs, sheep. A sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The first farms and towns, sentence 10

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Dogs were the first tamed animals, long before farming; sheep, goats, cattle and pigs came later, and horses much later.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, sheep · **What happens:** tame, be, farm, come · **To what, where:** first tamed animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history 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 (Dogs, sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:10
# text = Dogs were the first tamed animals, long before farming; sheep, goats, cattle and pigs came later, and horses much later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 002-the-first-farms-and-towns.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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	tamed	tame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	farming	farm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	advcl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
20	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Dogs | the first tamed animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **farm** | gerund | sheep and goats and cattle and pigs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | sheep and goats and cattle and pigs |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:10`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×2, R7-rel-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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