--- title: African wild dogs, also called painted wolves, seem to vote by sneez… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics description: African wild dogs, also called painted wolves, seem to vote by sneezing on whether to go hunting, and they share food with pups and the sick. Who acts: African wild dogs, dogs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (African wild dogs, dogs), 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:12 # text = African wild dogs, also called painted wolves, seem to vote by sneezing on whether to go hunting, and they share food with pups and the sick. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 also also ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 7 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 vote vote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 by by SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 sneezing sneeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 on on SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 19 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 share share VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | African wild dogs *not said here* | painted wolves | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seem** | present · passive | | African wild dogs | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **vote** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sneeze** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **hunt** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **share** | present | dogs *= dog* | food | | | | with pups | tree rules | 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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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