Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 12

Cows form friendships, and studies found they are calmer with a best friend nearby; calves kept with their mothers learn better social skills.

Who acts: Cows, studies, calves · What happens: form, find, be, keep, learn · To what, where: friendships, mothers, better social skills · Speech: someone speaks here

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, studies, calves), 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	2 form	nsubj
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 form	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
6	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 form	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 calmer	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 calmer	cop
10	calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 found	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 friend	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 friend	det
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 friend	amod
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calmer	obl
15	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	14 friend	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 calves	punct
17	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 learn	nsubj
18	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 calves	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 learn	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mothers	nmod:poss
21	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	obl
22	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 form	conj
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 skills	amod
24	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 skills	amod
25	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 learn	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 form	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	form	present	Cows	friendships		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friendship=Theme
2	find	past	studies			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	studies = study		with a best friend; calm property	tree rules
4	keep	participle	calves not said here	studies's mothers		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	learn	present	calves	better social skills		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=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:12.

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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