--- title: African wild dogs, also called painted dogs, live in close packs, gr… — The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostr… · tree and pragmatics description: African wild dogs, also called painted dogs, live in close packs, greet each other with squeaks and licks before a hunt, and share food with pups and with sick or old members. Who acts: African wild dogs. 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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 (African wild dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:13 # text = African wild dogs, also called painted dogs, live in close packs, greet each other with squeaks and licks before a hunt, and share food with pups and with sick or old members. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 packs pack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 greet greet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 squeaks squeak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 licks lick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 before before ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hunt hunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 or or CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **call** | participle | African wild dogs *not said here* | painted dogs | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | present | African wild dogs | | | close packs | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pack=Location | | 4 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | African wild dogs *not said here* | each other | | | before a hunt | with squeaks and licks | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | | 5 | **share** | present | African wild dogs *not said here* | food | | | | with pups and sick members | 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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:13`. **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 ×3, 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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