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title: Lionesses hunt together, some driving prey towards others hiding in… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lionesses hunt together, some driving prey towards others hiding in ambush, so they can catch animals as strong as buffalo. Who acts: Lionesses, some, others. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 11

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Lionesses hunt together, some driving prey towards others hiding in ambush, so they can catch animals as strong as buffalo.

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**Who acts:** Lionesses, some, others · **What happens:** hunt, drive, hide, catch · **To what, where:** driving prey, ambush, animals

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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 (Lionesses, some, others), 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:11
# text = Lionesses hunt together, some driving prey towards others hiding in ambush, so they can catch animals as strong as buffalo.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Lionesses	lioness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ambush	ambush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **hunt** | present | Lionesses | driving prey towards others |  |  |  | together *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drive** | gerund | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | gerund | others *not said here* |  |  | ambush |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ambush=Location |
| 4 | **catch** | can | lionesses *= lioness* | animals |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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.

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