The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 13

African wild dogs, also called painted dogs, live in close packs, greet each other with squeaks and licks before a hunt, and share food with pups and with sick or old members.

Who acts: African wild dogs · What happens: call, paint, live, greet, share · To what, where: painted dogs, close packs, other, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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 (African wild dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dogs	acl:relcl
7	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dogs	amod
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dogs	punct
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 packs	case
12	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 packs	amod
13	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 greet	punct
15	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 live	conj
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 greet	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 squeaks	case
19	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 greet	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 licks	cc
21	licks	lick	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 squeaks	conj
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 hunt	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hunt	det
24	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 greet	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 share	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 share	cc
27	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 greet	conj
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 share	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 pups	case
30	pups	pup	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 share	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 members	cc
32	with	with	ADP	_	36 members	case
33	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 members	amod
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 old	cc
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sick	conj
36	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pups	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	African wild dogs not said here	painted dogs				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	paint	participle						vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	present	African wild dogs		close packs			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pack=Location
4	greet speech: greet	present	African wild dogs not said here	each other		before a hunt	with squeaks and licks	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
5	share	present	African wild dogs not said here	food			with pups and sick members	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, 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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

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