Wolves and dogs, sentence 7
Wolves chase deer, elk and bison and pick the weak, old or sick, yet most hunts, often more than eight in ten, fail.
Who acts: Wolves, most hunts · What happens: chase, pick, fail · To what, where: deer, weak
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 (Wolves, most hunts), 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 | 2 chase | nsubj |
| 2 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chase | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 elk | punct |
| 5 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 deer | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bison | cc |
| 7 | bison | bison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deer | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pick | cc |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chase | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weak | det |
| 11 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pick | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weak | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sick | cc |
| 15 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 weak | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hunts | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 hunts | cc |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 hunts | amod |
| 19 | hunts | hunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fail | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eight | punct |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 eight | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 24 eight | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 more | fixed |
| 24 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hunts | appos |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ten | case |
| 26 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 eight | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fail | punct |
| 28 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 chase | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | present | Wolves | deer and elk and bison | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick | present | Wolves not said here | the weak | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fail | present | most hunts | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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 ×3, 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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