Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 2
Picture a family walking through deep snow: the parents go first and break the path, and the children step in their footprints, which is just what a wolf pack does.
Who acts: you, family, parents, children, footprints, wolf pack · What happens: picture, walk, go, break, step, be · To what, where: family, deep snow, path, footprints
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 (you, family, parents, children), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 family | acl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 snow | case |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snow | amod |
| 7 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parents | det |
| 10 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | nsubj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 break | cc |
| 14 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 break | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 step | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 step | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 children | det |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 step | nsubj |
| 21 | step | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 footprints | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 footprints | nmod:poss |
| 24 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 step | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 what | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 what | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 what | cop |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 what | advmod |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 footprints | acl:relcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pack | det |
| 31 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pack | compound |
| 32 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 does | nsubj |
| 33 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 what | acl:relcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a family | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent family=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | a family not said here | deep snow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through snow=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go | present | the parents | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | infinitive | the parents not said here | the path | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer path=Patient | ||||
| 5 | step | present | the children | parents's footprints | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in footprint=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | parents's footprints | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do | present | a wolf pack | vn act-114-1 «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:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together.lesson:2.
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 ×3. 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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