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title: Wolves chase deer, elk and bison and pick the weak, old or sick, yet… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Wolves chase deer, elk and bison and pick the weak, old or sick, yet most hunts, often more than eight in ten, fail. Who acts: Wolves, most hunts. 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 7

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Wolves chase deer, elk and bison and pick the weak, old or sick, yet most hunts, often more than eight in ten, fail.

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**Who acts:** Wolves, most hunts · **What happens:** chase, pick, fail · **To what, where:** deer, weak

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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, most hunts), 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:7
# text = Wolves chase deer, elk and bison and pick the weak, old or sick, yet most hunts, often more than eight in ten, fail.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bison	bison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
11	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	hunts	hunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
29	.	.	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 | **chase** | present | Wolves | deer and elk and bison |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 2 | **pick** | present | Wolves *not said here* | the weak |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Patient |
| 3 | **fail** | present | most hunts |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:7`.

**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 ×3, 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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