How animals hunt, sentence 6
In a lion pride the lionesses do most of the hunting, often working together to surround zebras, wildebeest or buffalo, and most lion hunts fail.
Who acts: lionesses, most lion hunts · What happens: do, work together, surround, fail · To what, where: most, lion pride, zebras
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 (lionesses, most lion hunts), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 pride | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pride | det |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pride | compound |
| 4 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lionesses | det |
| 6 | lionesses | lioness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hunting | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hunting | det |
| 11 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 most | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 working | advmod |
| 14 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 do | advcl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 working | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 surround | mark |
| 17 | surround | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 working | advcl |
| 18 | zebras | zebra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 surround | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wildebeest | punct |
| 20 | wildebeest | wildebeest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 zebras | conj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 buffalo | cc |
| 22 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 zebras | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fail | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fail | cc |
| 25 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 hunts | amod |
| 26 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hunts | compound |
| 27 | hunts | hunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fail | nsubj |
| 28 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the lionesses | most of the hunting | a lion pride | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | work together | gerund | the lionesses not said here | often, together property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | surround | to-infinitive | the lionesses not said here | zebras and wildebeest or buffalo | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme zebra=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | fail | present | most lion hunts | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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:052-how-animals-hunt.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): 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.
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