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title: Wolves live in packs that are usually a family: a mother, a father a… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Wolves live in packs that are usually a family: a mother, a father and their young of different ages. Who acts: Wolves, packs. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wolves and dogs, sentence 4

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Wolves live in packs that are usually a family: a mother, a father and their young of different ages.

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**Who acts:** Wolves, packs · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** packs, family

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» 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 (Wolves, packs), 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:4
# text = Wolves live in packs that are usually a family: a mother, a father and their young of different ages.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Wolves |  |  | packs |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pack=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | packs | a family |  |  |  | usually *property* | tree rules |

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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:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:4`.

**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): R8-pos-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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