Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 6

The alpha idea came from zoo wolves that were strangers to each other; David Mech, who made the word famous, spent years asking people to stop using it.

Who acts: alpha idea, zoo wolves, David · What happens: come, be, make, spend, ask, stop · To what, where: zoo wolves, strangers, word, people, wolf

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 (alpha idea, zoo wolves, David), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 idea	det
2	alpha	alpha	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 idea	amod
3	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 wolves	case
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolves	compound
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 strangers	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 strangers	cop
10	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wolves	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 strangers	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 spent	punct
15	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 spent	nsubj
16	Mech	Mech	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 David	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 David	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 word	det
21	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obj
22	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 made	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spent	punct
24	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spent	obl:unmarked
26	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 spent	xcomp
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 asking	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stop	mark
29	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 asking	xcomp
30	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 stop	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 using	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the alpha idea			zoo wolves			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location
2	is a	past	zoo wolves	strangers				to each	tree rules
3	make	past	David	the word				famous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Product
4	spend	past	David				year		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Goal
5	ask speech: ask	gerund	David not said here		people				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
6	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	David not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	use	gerund	David not said here	wolf					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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