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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 (Wolves, most hunts, wolf), 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:9 # text = Wolves test a herd to find a weak, young, old or sick animal, most hunts fail, and a wolf can eat about 9 kilograms of meat at once. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 test test VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 8 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 15 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 hunts hunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obl 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 once once ADV RB _ 25 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **test** | present | Wolves | a herd | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | | 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Wolves *not said here* | a weak young animal | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | | 3 | **fail** | present | most hunts | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | can | a wolf | 9 kilograms of meat | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Patient | 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:9`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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