Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 11
Calm, slow handling keeps sheep less stressed; stressed sheep scatter and can hurt themselves.
Who acts: Calm slow handling, sheep · What happens: keep, stress, scatter, hurt · To what, where: sheep
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 (Calm slow handling, 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 | Calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 handling | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slow | punct |
| 3 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 handling | amod |
| 4 | handling | handling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keeps | obj |
| 7 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 stressed | advmod |
| 8 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 scatter | punct |
| 10 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sheep | amod |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scatter | compound |
| 12 | scatter | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keeps | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hurt | cc |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | aux |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 scatter | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 hurt | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Calm slow handling | sheep | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stress | participle | sheep not said here | less property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | stress | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | scatter | present | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | hurt | can | sheep | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient |
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:11.
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 ×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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