--- title: Coyotes howl, yip and bark to keep in touch with family and to tell… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: Coyotes howl, yip and bark to keep in touch with family and to tell other coyotes the area is taken, and two coyotes can sound like a whole pack. Who acts: Coyotes, two coyotes. 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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 (Coyotes, two 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:14 # text = Coyotes howl, yip and bark to keep in touch with family and to tell other coyotes the area is taken, and two coyotes can sound like a whole pack. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 howl howl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 yip yip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 bark bark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 ccomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 28 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **howl** | present | Coyotes | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **yip** | present | Coyotes *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bark** | present | Coyotes *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Coyotes *not said here* | | | touch | | with family | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Coyotes *not said here* | | other coyotes | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent coyote=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **take** | present · passive | | the area | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **sound** | can | two coyotes | | | | | like a whole pack | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:14`. **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): 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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