Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 15
Wolves howl to talk to their pack and mark their territory; the Moon doesn't make them howl.
Who acts: Wolves, Moon · What happens: howl, talk, mark, not make, not howl · To what, where: territory, Wolves
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» of the myths 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, Moon), 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 howl | nsubj |
| 2 | howl | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 talk | mark |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 howl | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pack | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pack | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mark | cc |
| 9 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 talk | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 territory | nmod:poss |
| 11 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mark | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Moon | det |
| 14 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 howl | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 howl | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | present | Wolves | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | Wolves not said here | to Wolves's pack | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to pack=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | mark | infinitive | Wolves not said here | Wolves's territory | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not make | present · do-support | the Moon | Wolves = wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not howl | infinitive | Wolves = wolf not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «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:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:15.
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. 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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