--- title: Picture a family walking through deep snow: the parents go first and… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a family walking through deep snow: the parents go first and break the path, and the children step in their footprints, which is just what a wolf pack does. Who acts: you, family, parents, children. 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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 (you, family, parents, children), 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:2 # text = Picture a family walking through deep snow: the parents go first and break the path, and the children step in their footprints, which is just what a wolf pack does. # 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 ×3 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 12 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 break break VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 step step VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 footprints footprint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:ccomp 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a family | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent family=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | a family *not said here* | | | deep snow | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through snow=Trajectory | | 3 | **go** | present | the parents | | | | | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **break** | infinitive | the parents *not said here* | the path | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Patient | | 5 | **step** | present | the children | | | parents's footprints | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in footprint=Trajectory | | 6 | **is a** | present | parents's footprints | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | present | a wolf pack | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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 ×3. **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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