Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 1

The «alpha wolf» idea came from unrelated wolves kept together in zoos, who fought; in the wild the leaders are simply the parents.

Who acts: wolf idea, unrelated wolves, leaders · What happens: come, keep together, fight, be · To what, where: unrelated wolves, zoos, parents, wild

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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 (wolf idea, unrelated wolves, leaders), 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	6 idea	det
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct
3	alpha	alpha	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	amod
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 idea	compound
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct
6	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wolves	case
9	unrelated	unrelated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wolves	amod
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wolves	acl
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 zoos	case
14	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fought	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fought	nsubj
17	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wolves	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 parents	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wild	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wild	det
21	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 parents	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 leaders	det
23	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 parents	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 parents	cop
25	simply	simply	ADV	_	27 parents	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 parents	det
27	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the wolf idea		unrelated wolves		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location
2	keep together	participle		unrelated wolves not said here	zoos	together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in zoo=Location
3	fight	past	unrelated wolves				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the leaders	the parents	the wild	simply property	tree rules

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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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