--- title: Wolves change how elk graze, bees turn flowers into fruit, and the w… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: Wolves change how elk graze, bees turn flowers into fruit, and the worms and microbes in the soil feed the plants that feed us. Who acts: Wolves, elk, bees, worms. 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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, elk, bees, worms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:4 # text = Wolves change how elk graze, bees turn flowers into fruit, and the worms and microbes in the soil feed the plants that feed us. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 4 elk elk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 graze graze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Wolves | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **graze** | present | elk | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | present | bees | flowers | | fruit | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flower=Theme into fruit=Trajectory | | 4 | **feed** | present | the worms in the soil and microbes | the plants | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient | | 5 | **feed** | present | the plants | | us | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | 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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:4`. **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 ×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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