Wolves and dogs, sentence 5
The idea of an alpha wolf fighting its way to the top came from captive wolves; wild packs are mostly parents leading their family.
Who acts: alpha wolf, idea, wild packs, parents · What happens: fight, come, be, lead · To what, where: way, captive wolves, parents, family
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and dogs» 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 (alpha wolf, idea, wild packs, parents), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 fighting | mark |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wolf | det |
| 5 | alpha | alpha | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wolf | amod |
| 6 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fighting | nsubj |
| 7 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 idea | acl |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fighting | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fighting | obl |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 wolves | case |
| 15 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wolves | amod |
| 16 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 parents | punct |
| 18 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 packs | amod |
| 19 | packs | pack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 parents | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 parents | cop |
| 21 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 22 parents | advmod |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | parataxis |
| 23 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 parents | acl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 family | nmod:poss |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leading | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | gerund | a alpha wolf | idea's way | to the top | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | the idea | captive wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | wild packs | parents | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lead | gerund | parents not said here | wolves's family | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |
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:024-wolves-and-dogs.lesson:5.
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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