Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 7

Most farm sheep grow wool that never stops, so they must be shorn at least once a year, while wild sheep shed their coats every spring; an Australian merino that escaped shearing for years carried about 41 kilograms of fleece.

Who acts: Most farm sheep, wool, wild sheep, Australian merino · What happens: grow, not stop, shear, shed, escape, carry · To what, where: wool, goats, coats, shearing, 41 kilograms

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 (Most farm sheep, wool, wild sheep, Australian merino), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 sheep	amod
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sheep	compound
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stops	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 stops	advmod
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wool	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shorn	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 shorn	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shorn	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 shorn	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 shorn	aux:pass
14	shorn	shear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 grow	parataxis
15	at	at	ADV	_	16 least	fixed
16	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 once	advmod
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 shorn	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 once	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shed	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 shed	mark
22	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sheep	amod
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shed	nsubj
24	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shorn	advcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 coats	nmod:poss
26	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shed	obj
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 spring	det
28	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shed	obl:unmarked
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 escaped	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 merino	det
31	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 merino	amod
32	merino	merino	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 carried	nsubj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 escaped	nsubj
34	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 merino	acl:relcl
35	shearing	shearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 escaped	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 years	case
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 escaped	obl
38	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	parataxis
39	about	about	ADV	_	40 41	advmod
40	41	41	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	41 kilograms	nummod
41	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 carried	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 fleece	case
43	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 kilograms	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Most farm sheep	wool			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme
2	not stop	present	wool				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	shear	must · passive		goats = goat		once property	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Initial_Location
4	shed	past	wild sheep	goats's coats	spring		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Source
5	escape	past	a Australian merino	shearing	year		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shearing=Initial_Location
6	carry	past	a Australian merino	41 kilograms of fleece			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Theme

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: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): R5-strong ×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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