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title: Most wolf packs are a family: a mother, a father and their young of… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most wolf packs are a family: a mother, a father and their young of different years, and their land can cover hundreds of square kilometres. Who acts: Most wolf packs, land. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» of the biology course of Mov
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# Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 4

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Most wolf packs are a family: a mother, a father and their young of different years, and their land can cover hundreds of square kilometres.

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**Who acts:** Most wolf packs, land · **What happens:** be, cover · **To what, where:** family, hundreds

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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 (Most wolf packs, land), 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:4
# text = Most wolf packs are a family: a mother, a father and their young of different years, and their land can cover hundreds of square kilometres.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	young	young	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Most wolf packs | a family |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | can | father's land | hundreds of square kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hundred=Destination |

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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:4`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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