Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 0

In Babe, a polite little pig learns to herd sheep and wins a sheepdog trial, while a duck crows at dawn to be useful and the farm cat sneers.

Who acts: polite little pig, duck, farm cat · What happens: learn, herd, win, crow, be, sneer · To what, where: Babe, sheep, sheepdog trial

This is a sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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 (polite little pig, duck, farm cat), 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	_	2 Babe	case
2	Babe	Babe	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 learns	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Babe	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pig	det
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pig	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pig	amod
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learns	nsubj
8	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 herd	mark
10	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learns	xcomp
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 herd	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wins	cc
13	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 learns	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 trial	det
15	sheepdog	sheepdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trial	compound
16	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wins	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 crows	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 crows	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 duck	det
20	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crows	nsubj
21	crows	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 learns	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 dawn	case
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crows	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	26 useful	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 useful	cop
26	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 crows	ccomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sneers	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cat	det
29	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cat	compound
30	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sneers	nsubj
31	sneers	sneer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 useful	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 learns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	a polite little pig		Babe			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	herd	to-infinitive	a polite little pig not said here	sheep				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
3	win	present	a polite little pig not said here	a sheepdog trial				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Eventuality
4	crow	present	a duck			dawn		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	to-infinitive	a duck not said here				useful property	tree rules
6	sneer	present	the farm cat					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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