Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 16

Sheep see about 300 degrees around them, with a small blind gap right behind them, and see less well right in front of their noses, so a dog coming straight from behind may surprise them.

Who acts: Sheep, dog · What happens: see about, see, come, surprise · To what, where: 300 degrees, front, 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 (Sheep, dog), 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	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 300	advmod
4	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 degrees	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gap	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 gap	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 gap	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gap	amod
12	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gap	amod
13	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
14	right	right	ADV	_	16 them	advmod
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gap	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	conj
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 well	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 see	advmod
22	right	right	ADV	_	24 front	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 front	case
24	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 noses	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 noses	nmod:poss
27	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 front	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dog	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	37 surprise	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 dog	det
31	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 surprise	nsubj
32	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 dog	acl
33	straight	straight	ADV	_	32 coming	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 behind	case
35	behind	behind	ADV	_	32 coming	obl
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 surprise	aux
37	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 see	advcl
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 surprise	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see about	present	Sheep	300 degrees		around degrees = degree; with a small blind gap behind degrees	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer degree=Stimulus
2	see	infinitive	Sheep not said here		front of sheep's noses	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	gerund	a dog not said here			straight property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from behind=Initial_Location
4	surprise	may	a dog	sheep			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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:16.

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. 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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