--- title: In a lion pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often working… — How animals hunt · tree and pragmatics description: In a lion pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often working together to surround zebras, wildebeest or buffalo, and most lion hunts fail. Who acts: lionesses, most lion hunts. A sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/6/) [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/) / [How animals hunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/) / 6 # How animals hunt, sentence 6 In a lion pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often working together to surround zebras, wildebeest or buffalo, and most lion hunts fail. **Who acts:** lionesses, most lion hunts · **What happens:** do, work together, surround, fail · **To what, where:** most, lion pride, zebras This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 (lionesses, most lion hunts), 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:6 # text = In a lion pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often working together to surround zebras, wildebeest or buffalo, and most lion hunts fail. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 pride pride NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lionesses lioness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 15 together together ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 surround surround VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 zebras zebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 wildebeest wildebeest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 buffalo buffalo NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 26 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 hunts hunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fail fail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | the lionesses | most of the hunting | | a lion pride | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality | | 2 | **work together** | gerund | the lionesses *not said here* | | | | | often, together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **surround** | to-infinitive | the lionesses *not said here* | zebras and wildebeest or buffalo | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme zebra=Co-Theme | | 4 | **fail** | present | most lion hunts | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals hunt, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/5/) - next →: [How animals hunt, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/)