--- title: The idea of an alpha wolf fighting its way to the top came from capt… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics description: The idea of an alpha wolf fighting its way to the top came from captive wolves; wild packs are mostly parents leading their family. Who acts: alpha wolf, idea, wild packs, parents. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/5/) [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/) / [Wolves and dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/) / 5 # Wolves and dogs, sentence 5 The idea of an alpha wolf fighting its way to the top came from captive wolves; wild packs are mostly parents leading their family. **Who acts:** alpha wolf, idea, wild packs, parents · **What happens:** fight, come, be, lead · **To what, where:** way, captive wolves, parents, family 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 (alpha wolf, idea, wild packs, parents), 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:5 # text = The idea of an alpha wolf fighting its way to the top came from captive wolves; wild packs are mostly parents leading their family. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 alpha alpha ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 captive captive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 packs pack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 parataxis _ _ 23 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | gerund | a alpha wolf | idea's way | | | | to the top | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | the idea | | | captive wolves | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | wild packs | parents | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lead** | gerund | parents *not said here* | wolves's family | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [Wolves and dogs, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/4/) - next →: [Wolves and dogs, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/24-wolves-and-dogs/)