Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 7

Real wolves rarely attack people and usually avoid them, and bringing wolves back to Yellowstone in 1995 let riverbank trees grow back as elk, a kind of big deer, grazed less there.

Who acts: Real wolves, bringing, riverbank trees · What happens: attack, avoid, bring, let, grow back, graze · To what, where: people, wolves, 1995, riverbank trees, kind

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 (Real wolves, bringing, riverbank trees), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wolves	amod
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attack	nsubj
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	4 attack	advmod
4	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attack	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 avoid	cc
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 avoid	advmod
8	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 attack	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 avoid	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
12	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 let	csubj
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bringing	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 bringing	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Yellowstone	case
16	Yellowstone	Yellowstone	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 back	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 1995	case
18	1995	1995	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 bringing	obl
19	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attack	conj
20	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trees	compound
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 let	obj
22	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 grow	advmod
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 elk	case
25	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grow	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 kind	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 kind	det
28	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 elk	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 deer	case
30	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 deer	amod
31	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kind	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grazed	punct
33	grazed	graze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 kind	acl:relcl
34	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 there	advmod
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 grazed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 attack	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attack	present	Real wolves	people		rarely property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	avoid	present	Real wolves not said here	people		usually property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location
3	bring	gerund		wolves	1995		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
4	let	past	bringing	riverbank trees			tree rules
5	grow back	infinitive	riverbank trees not said here			as elk	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	graze	participle		a kind of big deer not said here	there		vn dine-39.5 «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:7.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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