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title: Wild wolves are shy, and attacks on people are very rare; old storie… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wild wolves are shy, and attacks on people are very rare; old stories like Little Red Riding Hood come from times when people feared wolves and lost livestock. Who acts: Wild wolves, attacks, old stories, people. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature
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# Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 15

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Wild wolves are shy, and attacks on people are very rare; old stories like Little Red Riding Hood come from times when people feared wolves and lost livestock.

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**Who acts:** Wild wolves, attacks, old stories, people · **What happens:** be, come, fear, lose · **To what, where:** wolves, livestock

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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 (Wild wolves, attacks, old stories, people), 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:15
# text = Wild wolves are shy, and attacks on people are very rare; old stories like Little Red Riding Hood come from times when people feared wolves and lost livestock.
# 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
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Red	Red	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Riding	Riding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Hood	Hood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
30	livestock	livestock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Wild wolves |  |  |  |  | shy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | attacks on people |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | old stories like Red Riding Hood |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fear** | past | people | wolves |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lose** | past | people *not said here* | livestock |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livestock=Eventuality |

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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:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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