--- title: A wolf pack is usually just a family, a mother and father with their… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics description: A wolf pack is usually just a family, a mother and father with their young, and in deep snow they trot in single file, stepping in each other's tracks to save energy. Who acts: wolf pack, young. 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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 (wolf pack, young), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:1 # text = A wolf pack is usually just a family, a mother and father with their young, and in deep snow they trot in single file, stepping in each other's tracks to save energy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 024-wolves-and-dogs.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 young young NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 trot trot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 file file NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 stepping step VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 29 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 other other NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 36 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is a** | present | a wolf pack | a family and a mother and father with mother's young | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **trot** | present | young | | | deep snow | | in single file | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Trajectory | | 3 | **step** | gerund | young *not said here* | each other's tracks | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location track=Theme | | 4 | **save** | to-infinitive | young *not said here* | energy | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | 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:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:1`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Wolves and dogs, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/0/) - next →: [Wolves and dogs, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/)