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title: The «alpha wolf» idea came from unrelated wolves kept together in zo… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics
description: The «alpha wolf» idea came from unrelated wolves kept together in zoos, who fought; in the wild the leaders are simply the parents. Who acts: wolf idea, unrelated wolves, leaders. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» of the biology course 
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# Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 1

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The «alpha wolf» idea came from unrelated wolves kept together in zoos, who fought; in the wild the leaders are simply the parents.

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**Who acts:** wolf idea, unrelated wolves, leaders · **What happens:** come, keep together, fight, be · **To what, where:** unrelated wolves, zoos, parents, wild

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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 (wolf idea, unrelated wolves, leaders), 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:1
# text = The «alpha wolf» idea came from unrelated wolves kept together in zoos, who fought; in the wild the leaders are simply the parents.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	alpha	alpha	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	unrelated	unrelated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **come** | past | the wolf idea |  |  | unrelated wolves |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **keep together** | participle |  | unrelated wolves *not said here* |  | zoos |  | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in zoo=Location |
| 3 | **fight** | past | unrelated wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the leaders | the parents |  | the wild |  | simply *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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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