--- title: Wolves do not howl at the moon; they lift their noses so the howl tr… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics description: Wolves do not howl at the moon; they lift their noses so the howl travels further, to call the pack and warn other packs away. Who acts: Wolves, howl. 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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 (Wolves, howl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:16 # text = Wolves do not howl at the moon; they lift their noses so the howl travels further, to call the pack and warn other packs away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 howl howl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 noses nose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 so so SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 howl howl NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 further further ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 warn warn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 packs pack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **not** **howl** | present · do-support | Wolves | | | | | at the moon | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus | | 2 | **lift** | present | Wolves *= wolf* | Wolves's noses | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | | 3 | **travel** | present | the howl | | | | | further *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | | the pack | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pack=Recipient | | 5 | **warn away** *speech: warn* | infinitive | | other packs | | | | away *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pack=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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