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title: Ukraine has a few thousand wolves, which hunt deer and boar and usua… — Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ukraine has a few thousand wolves, which hunt deer and boar and usually avoid people; in the folk tale Sirko an old dog and a wolf become friends. Who acts: Ukraine, thousand wolves, old dog. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» of the bio
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# Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears, sentence 13

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Ukraine has a few thousand wolves, which hunt deer and boar and usually avoid people; in the folk tale Sirko an old dog and a wolf become friends.

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**Who acts:** Ukraine, thousand wolves, old dog · **What happens:** have, hunt, avoid, become · **To what, where:** thousand wolves, deer, people, friends, folk tale

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's forests: bison, elk, lynx, wolves and Carpathian brown bears» 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 (Ukraine, thousand wolves, old dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:13
# text = Ukraine has a few thousand wolves, which hunt deer and boar and usually avoid people; in the folk tale Sirko an old dog and a wolf become friends.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
22	Sirko	Sirko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
30	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **have** | present | Ukraine | thousand wolves |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | thousand wolves | deer and boar |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme |
| 3 | **avoid** | present | thousand wolves *not said here* | people |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location |
| 4 | **become** | present | a old dog and a wolf | friends |  |  |  | in the folk tale *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tale=Result |

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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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**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:372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears.lesson:13`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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