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title: Real wolves rarely attack people and usually avoid them, and bringin… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myt… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real wolves rarely attack people and usually avoid them, and bringing wolves back to Yellowstone in 1995 let riverbank trees grow back as elk, a kind of big deer, grazed less there. Who acts: Real wolves, bringing, riverbank trees. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alp
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# Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 7

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Real wolves rarely attack people and usually avoid them, and bringing wolves back to Yellowstone in 1995 let riverbank trees grow back as elk, a kind of big deer, grazed less there.

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**Who acts:** Real wolves, bringing, riverbank trees · **What happens:** attack, avoid, bring, let, grow back, graze · **To what, where:** people, wolves, 1995, riverbank trees, kind

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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 (Real wolves, bringing, riverbank trees), 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:7
# text = Real wolves rarely attack people and usually avoid them, and bringing wolves back to Yellowstone in 1995 let riverbank trees grow back as elk, a kind of big deer, grazed less there.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Yellowstone	Yellowstone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1995	1995	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:VerbForm=Inf
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	grazed	graze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **attack** | present | Real wolves | people |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **avoid** | present | Real wolves *not said here* | people |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund |  | wolves |  | 1995 |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | past | bringing | riverbank trees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow back** | infinitive | riverbank trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as elk | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **graze** | participle |  | a kind of big deer *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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