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title: Wolves howl to call their pack and warn other packs, at any time of… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wolves howl to call their pack and warn other packs, at any time of night or day; they point their heads up because the sound carries further, and the moon has nothing to do with it. Who acts: Wolves, people, sound, moon. A sentence of the lesson «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringi
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# Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back, sentence 16

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Wolves howl to call their pack and warn other packs, at any time of night or day; they point their heads up because the sound carries further, and the moon has nothing to do with it.

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**Who acts:** Wolves, people, sound, moon · **What happens:** howl, call, warn, point up, carry, have · **To what, where:** pack, other packs, heads, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wolves, people, sound, moon), 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:16
# text = Wolves howl to call their pack and warn other packs, at any time of night or day; they point their heads up because the sound carries further, and the moon has nothing to do with it.
# 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): no change
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	howl	howl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
29	further	further	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **howl** | present | Wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | to-infinitive |  | people's pack |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pack=Recipient |
| 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | infinitive |  | other packs |  |  | time |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pack=Recipient |
| 4 | **point up** | present | people | people's heads |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | present | the sound |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | present | the moon | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | the moon *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with wolf | vn act-114-1 «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): no change. **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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