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title: Real predators hunt to eat, not out of anger or meanness, and many f… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics
description: Real predators hunt to eat, not out of anger or meanness, and many fail more hunts than they win. Who acts: Real predators, many, predators. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 15

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Real predators hunt to eat, not out of anger or meanness, and many fail more hunts than they win.

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**Who acts:** Real predators, many, predators · **What happens:** hunt, eat, fail, win · **To what, where:** anger, more hunts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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 predators, many, predators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:15
# text = Real predators hunt to eat, not out of anger or meanness, and many fail more hunts than they win.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.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	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	meanness	meanness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
18	hunts	hunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **hunt** | present | Real predators |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Real predators *not said here* |  |  | anger or meanness |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent out anger=Source |
| 3 | **fail** | present | many | more hunts |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Eventuality |
| 4 | **win** | present | predators *= predator* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:15`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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