Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 12

African wild dogs, also called painted wolves, seem to vote by sneezing on whether to go hunting, and they share food with pups and the sick.

Who acts: African wild dogs, dogs · What happens: call, paint, seem, vote, sneeze, go · To what, where: painted wolves, African wild dogs, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (African wild dogs, dogs), 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	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seem	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dogs	acl
7	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wolves	amod
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
10	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 vote	mark
12	vote	vote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seem	xcomp
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 sneezing	mark
14	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 vote	advcl
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vote	advcl
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 go	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 share	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 share	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 share	nsubj
23	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 seem	conj
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 share	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 pups	case
26	pups	pup	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 share	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sick	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sick	det
29	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pups	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seem	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle	African wild dogs not said here	painted wolves		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	paint	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	present · passive		African wild dogs		tree rules
4	vote	to-infinitive				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sneeze	gerund				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	hunt	gerund				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	share	present	dogs = dog	food	with pups	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:12.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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