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title: Wolves howl to talk to their pack and mark their territory; the Moon… — Wild animals and tall tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wolves howl to talk to their pack and mark their territory; the Moon doesn't make them howl. Who acts: Wolves, Moon. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 15

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Wolves howl to talk to their pack and mark their territory; the Moon doesn't make them howl.

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**Who acts:** Wolves, Moon · **What happens:** howl, talk, mark, not make, not howl · **To what, where:** territory, Wolves

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths 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 (Wolves, Moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:15
# text = Wolves howl to talk to their pack and mark their territory; the Moon doesn't make them howl.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	howl	howl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	howl	howl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **howl** | present | Wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | to-infinitive | Wolves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Wolves's pack | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to pack=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **mark** | infinitive | Wolves *not said here* | Wolves's territory |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | the Moon | Wolves *= wolf* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **howl** | infinitive | Wolves *= wolf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:15`.

**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, 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/).

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