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title: Many animal behaviours are instincts inherited from wild ancestors. — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics
description: Many animal behaviours are instincts inherited from wild ancestors. Who acts: Many animal behaviours. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Thinking like an animal, sentence 7

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Many animal behaviours are instincts inherited from wild ancestors.

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**Who acts:** Many animal behaviours · **What happens:** be, inherit · **To what, where:** instincts, wild ancestors

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» of the everyday 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 (Many animal behaviours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:7
# text = Many animal behaviours are instincts inherited from wild ancestors.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 030-thinking-like-an-animal.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	behaviours	behaviour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	instincts	instinct	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Many animal behaviours | instincts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **inherit** | participle |  | instincts *not said here* |  | wild ancestors |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from ancestor=Source |

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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:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:7`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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