--- title: A few thousand coyotes are thought to live in and around Chicago; th… — Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coy… · tree and pragmatics description: A few thousand coyotes are thought to live in and around Chicago; they eat mice, rabbits, fruit and rubbish, are mostly out at night, and some wait for gaps in traffic before crossing roads. Who acts: coyotes, some. 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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 (coyotes, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.lesson:10 # text = A few thousand coyotes are thought to live in and around Chicago; they eat mice, rabbits, fruit and rubbish, are mostly out at night, and some wait for gaps in traffic before crossing roads. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 around around ADP IN _ 9 conj _ _ 12 Chicago Chicago PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 16 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 out out ADV RB _ 15 parataxis _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 32 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 traffic traffic NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 before before SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 advcl _ _ 39 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive | | a few thousand coyotes | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | Chicago | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chicago=Location | | 3 | **eat** | present | coyotes *= coyote* | mice and rabbits and fruit and rubbish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | night | mostly, out *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **wait** | present | some | | | | | for gaps in traffic | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **cross** | gerund | some *not said here* | roads | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | 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:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards.lesson:10`. **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, 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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