Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together, sentence 9

Wolves test a herd to find a weak, young, old or sick animal, most hunts fail, and a wolf can eat about 9 kilograms of meat at once.

Who acts: Wolves, most hunts, wolf · What happens: test, find, fail, eat · To what, where: herd, weak young animal, 9 kilograms

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, most hunts, wolf), 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	2 test	nsubj
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 herd	det
4	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 test	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 animal	det
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 animal	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 weak	punct
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 animal	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 young	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 sick	cc
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 young	conj
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fail	punct
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 hunts	amod
18	hunts	hunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fail	nsubj
19	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 test	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eat	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wolf	det
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	aux
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 test	conj
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 9	advmod
27	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 kilograms	nummod
28	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eat	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 meat	case
30	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kilograms	nmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	_	25 eat	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 test	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	test	present	Wolves	a herd	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	Wolves not said here	a weak young animal	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic
3	fail	present	most hunts		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	can	a wolf	9 kilograms of meat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=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:9.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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