Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 12

Real coyotes do not use tools; they hunt by stalking, chasing and pouncing (for a mouse in grass or snow a coyote leaps high and pounces down on it), alone, in pairs or in small family groups.

Who acts: Real coyotes, tools, coyote · What happens: not use, hunt, stalk, chase, pounce, leap · To what, where: tools, pairs, snow

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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 (Real coyotes, tools, coyote), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 coyotes	amod
2	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 use	advmod
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hunt	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hunt	nsubj
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	parataxis
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 stalking	mark
11	stalking	stalk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 hunt	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chasing	punct
13	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stalking	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pouncing	cc
15	pouncing	pounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stalking	conj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 mouse	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 mouse	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mouse	det
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaps	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 grass	case
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouse	nmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 snow	cc
23	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grass	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 coyote	det
25	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaps	nsubj
26	leaps	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hunt	ccomp
27	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 leaps	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pounces	cc
29	pounces	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 leaps	conj
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 pounces	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pounces	obl
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 pounces	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 alone	punct
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 hunt	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pairs	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 pairs	case
38	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hunt	obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 groups	cc
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 groups	case
41	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 groups	amod
42	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 groups	compound
43	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pairs	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not use	present · do-support	Real coyotes	tools			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Patient
2	hunt	present	tools = tool		pairs or small family groups	alone property	tree rules
3	stalk	gerund	tools = tool not said here				vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	chase	gerund	tools = tool not said here				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	pounce	gerund	tools = tool not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leap	present	a coyote			for a mouse in grass or snow; high property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pounce down	present	a coyote not said here		snow		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:12.

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 ×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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