Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 11

Cows in a field often face the same way, turning their backs to wind and rain or lining up with the sun; some scientists reported they tend to line up north to south, but others could not find this, so it is still argued.

Who acts: Cows, scientists, others · What happens: face, turn, line up, report, tend, not find · To what, where: same way, backs, wind, this, way

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 (Cows, scientists, others), 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	Cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 face	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 field	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 field	det
4	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cows	nmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 face	advmod
6	face	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 face	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turning	punct
11	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 face	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 backs	nmod:poss
13	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turning	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 wind	case
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turning	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rain	cc
17	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wind	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 lining	cc
19	lining	line	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 turning	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 lining	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sun	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lining	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 reported	punct
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 scientists	det
26	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 reported	nsubj
27	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 face	parataxis
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 tend	nsubj
29	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 reported	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 line	mark
31	line	line	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tend	xcomp
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 line	compound:prt
33	north	north	ADV	_	31 line	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 south	case
35	south	south	ADV	_	33 north	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 find	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 find	cc
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 find	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 find	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 find	advmod
41	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 face	conj
42	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 find	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 argued	punct
44	so	so	ADV	_	48 argued	advmod
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 argued	nsubj:pass
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 argued	aux:pass
47	still	still	ADV	_	48 argued	advmod
48	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 find	ccomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 face	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	present	Cows in a field	the same way			often property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination
2	turn	gerund	Cows in a field not said here	cattle's backs	wind and rain			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme to wind=Trajectory
3	line up	gerund	Cows in a field not said here				with the sun	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sun=Theme
4	report	past	some scientists					vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	tend	present	scientists = scientist					tree rules
6	line up	to-infinitive	scientists = scientist not said here				north property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	not find	could	others	this				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Attribute clause=Theme
8	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		way		still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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