Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 11
Lionesses hunt together, some driving prey towards others hiding in ambush, so they can catch animals as strong as buffalo.
Who acts: Lionesses, some, others · What happens: hunt, drive, hide, catch · To what, where: driving prey, ambush, animals
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 (Lionesses, some, others), 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 | Lionesses | lioness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunt | nsubj |
| 2 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 hunt | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prey | punct |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 driving | nsubj |
| 6 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 prey | amod |
| 7 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunt | obl |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 others | case |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prey | nmod |
| 10 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 others | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ambush | case |
| 12 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hiding | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 catch | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 catch | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 catch | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 catch | aux |
| 17 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hunt | advcl |
| 18 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 catch | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 strong | advmod |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animals | amod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 buffalo | case |
| 22 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strong | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | Lionesses | driving prey towards others | together property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | drive | gerund | some | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hide | gerund | others not said here | ambush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ambush=Location | ||||
| 4 | catch | can | lionesses = lioness | animals | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:11.
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. 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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