--- title: Animals that learn fast and eat almost anything do best in cities, a… — Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coy… · tree and pragmatics description: Animals that learn fast and eat almost anything do best in cities, and scientists have found many city animals are bolder than their country cousins. Who acts: Animals, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Big wild animals in cities: wild boar,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/) / 16 # Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards, sentence 16 Animals that learn fast and eat almost anything do best in cities, and scientists have found many city animals are bolder than their country cousins. **Who acts:** Animals, scientists · **What happens:** learn, eat, find, be · **To what, where:** anything, many city animals · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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 (Animals, scientists), 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:16 # text = Animals that learn fast and eat almost anything do best in cities, and scientists have found many city animals are bolder than their country cousins. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 almost almost ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 bolder bold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 ccomp _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present | Animals | | | | | fast *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | present | Animals *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 3 | **find** | present · perfect | scientists | many city animals | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | than scientists's country cousins; bold *property* | tree rules | 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:16`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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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