--- title: The cheetah is the sprinter, the wolf pack is the long-distance team… — How animals hunt · tree and pragmatics description: The cheetah is the sprinter, the wolf pack is the long-distance team, the python and the praying mantis are the patient ambushers, and the spider and the anglerfish are trap builders. Who acts: cheetah, wolf pack, python. 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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 (cheetah, wolf pack, python), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:1 # text = The cheetah is the sprinter, the wolf pack is the long-distance team, the python and the praying mantis are the patient ambushers, and the spider and the anglerfish are trap builders. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 052-how-animals-hunt.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cheetah cheetah NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sprinter sprinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 praying pray VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 mantis mantis NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ambushers ambusher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 anglerfish anglerfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:nsubj 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 builders builder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the cheetah | the sprinter and the distance team and the patient ambushers and the spider and the anglerfish and trap builders | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the wolf pack | the distance team | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pray** | gerund | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is a** | present | the python and the praying mantis | the patient ambushers and the spider and the anglerfish and trap builders | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | the python and the praying mantis *not said here* | trap builders | | | | | 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:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals hunt, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/0/) - next →: [How animals hunt, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/)