Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 14

Coyotes howl, yip and bark to keep in touch with family and to tell other coyotes the area is taken, and two coyotes can sound like a whole pack.

Who acts: Coyotes, two coyotes · What happens: howl, yip, bark, keep, tell, take · To what, where: touch, other coyotes, area · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Coyotes, two coyotes), 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	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 howl	nsubj
2	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yip	punct
4	yip	yip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 howl	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bark	cc
6	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 howl	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bark	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 touch	case
10	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 family	case
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 keep	conj
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 coyotes	amod
17	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tell	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 area	det
19	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taken	nsubj:pass
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 taken	aux:pass
21	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tell	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sound	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sound	cc
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 coyotes	nummod
25	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sound	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sound	aux
27	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 howl	conj
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 pack	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pack	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pack	amod
31	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sound	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 howl	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	howl	present	Coyotes					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	yip	present	Coyotes not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bark	present	Coyotes not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	to-infinitive	Coyotes not said here			touch	with family	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Coyotes not said here		other coyotes			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent coyote=Recipient clause=Topic
6	take	present · passive		the area				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	sound	can	two coyotes				like a whole pack	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:14.

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.

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