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title: Wolves, lionesses, African wild dogs and even geese in a V show that… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wolves, lionesses, African wild dogs and even geese in a V show that working as a team can beat being the strongest on your own. Who acts: Wolves, working. 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
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# Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 3

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Wolves, lionesses, African wild dogs and even geese in a V show that working as a team can beat being the strongest on your own.

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**Who acts:** Wolves, working · **What happens:** show, work, beat, be · **To what, where:** own · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wolves, working), 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:3
# text = Wolves, lionesses, African wild dogs and even geese in a V show that working as a team can beat being the strongest on your own.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	geese	geese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card
14	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	csubj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	xcomp	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **show** | present | Wolves and lionesses and African wild dogs and geese |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as a team | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as team=Attribute |
| 3 | **beat** | can | working |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | working *not said here* |  |  | your own |  | strong *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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**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): 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.

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