--- title: Real coyotes use no rockets or traps: they stalk, chase and pounce,… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real c… · tree and pragmatics description: Real coyotes use no rockets or traps: they stalk, chase and pounce, live in many cities without being seen, and call to their families with yips and howls at night. Who acts: Real coyotes, rockets. A sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/) / 4 # Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 4 Real coyotes use no rockets or traps: they stalk, chase and pounce, live in many cities without being seen, and call to their families with yips and howls at night. **Who acts:** Real coyotes, rockets · **What happens:** use, stalk, chase, pounce, live, see · **To what, where:** rockets, many cities, families · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, rockets), 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:4 # text = Real coyotes use no rockets or traps: they stalk, chase and pounce, live in many cities without being seen, and call to their families with yips and howls 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 rockets rocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stalk stalk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pounce pounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 without without SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 yips yip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 howls howl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Real coyotes | no rockets or traps | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Patient | | 2 | **stalk** | present | rockets *= rocket* | | | | | | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **chase** | present | rockets *= rocket* *not said here* | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pounce** | present | rockets *= rocket* *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **live** | present | rockets *= rocket* *not said here* | | | many cities | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | | 6 | **see** | gerund · passive | rockets *= rocket* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | | 7 | **call** | present | rockets *= rocket* *not said here* | | rockets's families | | night | with yips and howls | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to family=Recipient | 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. 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