--- title: Hunting animals have a strong instinct to chase things that run away. — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics description: Hunting animals have a strong instinct to chase things that run away. Who acts: Hunting animals, things. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/8/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Thinking like an animal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/) / 8 # Thinking like an animal, sentence 8 Hunting animals have a strong instinct to chase things that run away. **Who acts:** Hunting animals, things · **What happens:** hunt, have, chase, run away · **To what, where:** strong instinct, things 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 (Hunting animals, things), 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:8 # text = Hunting animals have a strong instinct to chase things that run away. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | Hunting animals | a strong instinct | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instinct=Patient | | 3 | **chase** | to-infinitive | Hunting animals *not said here* | things | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **run away** | present | things | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:8`. **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. **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: [Thinking like an animal, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/7/) - next →: [Thinking like an animal, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/)