--- title: The scientist Con Slobodchikoff reported that prairie dog alarm call… — Rodents of every kind: squirrels, marmots, prair… · tree and pragmatics description: The scientist Con Slobodchikoff reported that prairie dog alarm calls change for hawks, coyotes, dogs and people, and even with the colour of a person's shirt; how much the calls really describe is still argued. Who acts: scientist Con Slobodchikoff, much calls. 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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 (scientist Con Slobodchikoff, much calls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.lesson:11 # text = The scientist Con Slobodchikoff reported that prairie dog alarm calls change for hawks, coyotes, dogs and people, and even with the colour of a person's shirt; how much the calls really describe is still argued. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 Con con NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Slobodchikoff Slobodchikoff PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:mark 7 prairie prairie NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 10 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:ccomp 11 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 hawks hawk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 33 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 really really ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 describe describe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 csubj:pass _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ _ 41 . . 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 | **report** | past | scientist Con Slobodchikoff | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | with the colour of a person's shirt | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **change** | present | | | | | | for hawks and coyotes and dogs and people | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **describe** | present | the much calls | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | 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:317-rodents-of-every-kind-squirrels-marmots-prairie-dogs-porcupines-chinchillas-and-dormice.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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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