Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 16

Wolves do not howl at the moon; they lift their noses so the howl travels further, to call the pack and warn other packs away.

Who acts: Wolves, howl · What happens: not howl, lift, travel, call, warn away · To what, where: noses, pack, other packs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 (Wolves, howl), 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	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 howl	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 howl	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 howl	advmod
4	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 howl	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 lift	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lift	nsubj
10	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 howl	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 noses	nmod:poss
12	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lift	obj
13	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 travels	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 howl	det
15	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 travels	nsubj
16	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lift	advcl
17	further	further	ADV	_	16 travels	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 call	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 call	mark
20	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 lift	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pack	det
22	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 call	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 warn	cc
24	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 call	conj
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 packs	amod
26	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 warn	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	24 warn	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 howl	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not howl	present · do-support	Wolves		at the moon	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus
2	lift	present	Wolves = wolf	Wolves's noses		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
3	travel	present	the howl		further property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	to-infinitive		the pack		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pack=Recipient
5	warn away speech: warn	infinitive		other packs	away property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pack=Recipient

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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:16.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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