Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 3

Wolves, lionesses, African wild dogs and even geese in a V show that working as a team can beat being the strongest on your own.

Who acts: Wolves, working · What happens: show, work, beat, be · To what, where: own · 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 (Wolves, working), 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	14 show	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lionesses	punct
3	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wolves	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dogs	punct
5	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dogs	amod
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wolves	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 geese	cc
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 geese	advmod
10	geese	geese	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wolves	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 V	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 V	det
13	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 show	compound
14	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 beat	mark
16	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 beat	csubj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 team	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 team	det
19	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 working	obl
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 beat	aux
21	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 show	ccomp
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 strongest	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 strongest	det
24	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 beat	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 own	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 own	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 strongest	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 beat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	Wolves and lionesses and African wild dogs and geese			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work	gerund			as a team	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as team=Attribute
3	beat	can	working			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	gerund	working not said here	your own	strong 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:3.

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): 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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