--- title: Prairie dogs have alarm calls that seem to describe a predator, even… — Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole… · tree and pragmatics description: Prairie dogs have alarm calls that seem to describe a predator, even a person's size and the colour of their clothes, as experiments by Con Slobodchikoff suggested. Who acts: Prairie dogs, alarm calls, experiments, Con Slobodchikoff. 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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 (Prairie dogs, alarm calls, experiments, Con Slobodchikoff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:11 # text = Prairie dogs have alarm calls that seem to describe a predator, even a person's size and the colour of their clothes, as experiments by Con Slobodchikoff suggested. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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 1 Prairie prairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 describe describe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 predator predator NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 27 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 Con Con PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 Slobodchikoff Slobodchikoff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 suggested suggest VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Prairie dogs | alarm calls | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient | | 2 | **seem** | present | alarm calls | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **describe** | to-infinitive | alarm calls *not said here* | a predator | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent predator=Theme | | 4 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | experiments by Con Slobodchikoff | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **experiment** | | Con Slobodchikoff | | | | | | nom experiment «act intransitive»: by=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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.lesson:11`. **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. **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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