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title: Real coyotes do not use tools; they hunt by stalking, chasing and po… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real coyotes do not use tools; they hunt by stalking, chasing and pouncing (for a mouse in grass or snow a coyote leaps high and pounces down on it), alone, in pairs or in small family groups. Who acts: Real coyotes, tools, coyote. A sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the 
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# Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 12

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Real coyotes do not use tools; they hunt by stalking, chasing and pouncing (for a mouse in grass or snow a coyote leaps high and pounces down on it), alone, in pairs or in small family groups.

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**Who acts:** Real coyotes, tools, coyote · **What happens:** not use, hunt, stalk, chase, pounce, leap · **To what, where:** tools, pairs, snow

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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 (Real coyotes, tools, coyote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:12
# text = Real coyotes do not use tools; they hunt by stalking, chasing and pouncing (for a mouse in grass or snow a coyote leaps high and pounces down on it), alone, in pairs or in small family groups.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.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 ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stalking	stalk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pouncing	pounce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
27	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pounces	pounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	29	punct	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **use** | present · do-support | Real coyotes | tools |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | tools *= tool* |  |  | pairs or small family groups |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stalk** | gerund | tools *= tool* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **chase** | gerund | tools *= tool* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pounce** | gerund | tools *= tool* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leap** | present | a coyote |  |  |  |  | for a mouse in grass or snow; high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **pounce down** | present | a coyote *not said here* |  |  | snow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |

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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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**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 ×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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