Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 9

Shepherds use whistles and calls for left, right, stop and come in, because a whistle carries farther than a voice over hills and wind; «come by» means clockwise round the flock and «away to me» anticlockwise.

Who acts: Shepherds, whistle · What happens: use, stop, come in, carry, come by, mean · To what, where: whistles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Shepherds, whistle), 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	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 calls	cc
5	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 whistles	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 left	case
7	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 calls	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	11 stop	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
11	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 use	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	conj
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 carries	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 carries	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 whistle	det
18	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carries	nsubj
19	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	advcl
20	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 carries	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 voice	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 voice	det
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 farther	obl
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 hills	case
25	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 voice	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wind	cc
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hills	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 means	nsubj
31	by	by	ADP	_	30 come	compound:prt
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	parataxis
34	clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 means	xcomp
35	round	round	ADP	_	37 flock	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 flock	det
37	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 means	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 away	cc
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	40 away	punct
40	away	away	ADV	_	30 come	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 away	obl
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 away	punct
44	anticlockwise	anticlockwise	ADV	_	33 means	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Shepherds	whistles and calls for left		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	stop	infinitive				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	come in	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	present	a whistle		far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	come by in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mean	present			round the flock; anticlockwise, clockwise property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×4, R6-punct-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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