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title: Coyotes now live in many North American cities, including Chicago an… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Coyotes now live in many North American cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, eating rats, mice, fruit and rubbish and moving about at night. Who acts: Coyotes. A sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 13

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Coyotes now live in many North American cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, eating rats, mice, fruit and rubbish and moving about at night.

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**Who acts:** Coyotes · **What happens:** live, eat, move about · **To what, where:** many North American cities, rats

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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 (Coyotes), 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:13
# text = Coyotes now live in many North American cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles, eating rats, mice, fruit and rubbish and moving about at night.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	including	include	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Los	Los	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	Angeles	Angeles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | Coyotes |  |  | many North American cities include Chicago and Los | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | Coyotes *not said here* | rats and mice and fruit and rubbish |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient |
| 3 | **move about** | gerund | Coyotes *not said here* |  |  |  | night | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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