Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 0

Grass is so tough that people cannot get any goodness from it at all, yet a cow turns it into milk and meat.

Who acts: Grass, people, cow · What happens: be, not get, turn · To what, where: goodness, Grass, milk

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» 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 (Grass, people, cow), 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	Grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tough	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tough	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tough	advmod
4	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tough	ccomp
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 goodness	det
11	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 get	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turns	punct
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 turns	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cow	det
19	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turns	nsubj
20	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tough	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 turns	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 milk	case
23	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turns	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 meat	cc
25	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 milk	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tough	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	is	present	Grass			tough property	tree rules
2	not get	can	people	any goodness	Grass	at all	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent goodness=Theme from it=Source at all=Asset
3	turn	present	a cow	Grass	milk and meat		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into milk=Trajectory

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:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.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.

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