Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 4

Most wolf packs are a family: a mother, a father and their young of different years, and their land can cover hundreds of square kilometres.

Who acts: Most wolf packs, land · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: family, hundreds

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 (Most wolf packs, land), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 packs	amod
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 packs	compound
3	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 family	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 family	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 family	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 family	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 father	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 father	det
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 young	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 young	nmod:poss
15	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 years	case
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 years	amod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 young	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cover	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cover	cc
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 land	nmod:poss
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cover	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cover	aux
24	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 family	conj
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cover	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 kilometres	case
27	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kilometres	compound
28	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hundreds	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 family	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Most wolf packs	a family					tree rules
2	cover	can	father's land	hundreds of square kilometres					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hundred=Destination

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:4.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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