Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 4

Real sheep live in flocks, stay close to their friends and get stressed when alone, because a lone sheep is easy for a fox or dog to catch.

Who acts: Real sheep, lone sheep · What happens: live, stay, stress, be, catch · To what, where: flocks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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 sheep, lone sheep), 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 sheep	amod
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 flocks	case
5	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	conj
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 friends	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friends	nmod:poss
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 close	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stressed	cc
13	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 stressed	aux:pass
14	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stay	conj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 alone	advmod
16	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stressed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 easy	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 easy	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sheep	det
20	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sheep	amod
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 easy	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 easy	cop
23	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stressed	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 fox	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fox	det
26	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 easy	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 dog	cc
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fox	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 catch	mark
30	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 easy	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Real sheep	flocks		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flock=Location
2	stay	present	Real sheep not said here		close property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stress	infinitive · passive	Real sheep not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»
4	is	present	a lone sheep		for a fox or dog; easy property	tree rules
5	catch	to-infinitive	a lone sheep not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:4.

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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