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title: A wild wolf pack is not a gang ruled by a fighting boss: it is a fam… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wild wolf pack is not a gang ruled by a fighting boss: it is a family, a mother and father wolf with their young from the last few years. Who acts: wild wolf pack, pack. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» of the biology course of Mova'
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# Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 0

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A wild wolf pack is not a gang ruled by a fighting boss: it is a family, a mother and father wolf with their young from the last few years.

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**Who acts:** wild wolf pack, pack · **What happens:** not be, rule, be · **To what, where:** gang, family

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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 (wild wolf pack, pack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:0
# text = A wild wolf pack is not a gang ruled by a fighting boss: it is a family, a mother and father wolf with their young from the last few years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gang	gang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:agent	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a wild wolf pack | a gang and a mother and father wolf with mother's young from the last few years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rule** | participle |  | a gang and a mother and father wolf with mother's young from the last few years *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | pack | a family |  |  |  |  | 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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:0`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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