--- title: Lynx are shy wild cats that eat deer and are not known to attack peo… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and br… · tree and pragmatics description: Lynx are shy wild cats that eat deer and are not known to attack people; some people want them back in Scotland, some farmers fear for their sheep, and it is debated carefully. Who acts: Lynx, shy wild cats, people, farmers. 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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 (Lynx, shy wild cats, people, farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:12 # text = Lynx are shy wild cats that eat deer and are not known to attack people; some people want them back in Scotland, some farmers fear for their sheep, and it is debated carefully. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lynx Lynx PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 attack attack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fear fear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 debated debate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 36 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Lynx | shy wild cats | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | shy wild cats | deer | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Patient | | 3 | **not** **know** | present · passive | shy wild cats *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **attack** | to-infinitive | shy wild cats *not said here* | people | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 5 | **want back** | present | some people | deer | | Scotland | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 6 | **fear** | present | some farmers | | | | | for farmers's sheep | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for sheep=Attribute | | 7 | **debate** | present · passive | | water | | | | carefully *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:12`. **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 ×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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