Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 14

A cow has no top front teeth, only a hard pad, so it wraps its long rough tongue around grass to pull it, and that tongue is long enough to lick inside its own nostrils.

Who acts: cow, pad, tongue · What happens: have, wrap, pull, be, lick · To what, where: top front teeth, long rough tongue, grass, tongue, own nostrils

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 (cow, pad, tongue), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 teeth	det
5	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teeth	amod
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teeth	amod
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pad	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 pad	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pad	det
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pad	amod
12	pad	pad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teeth	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wraps	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 wraps	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wraps	nsubj
16	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tongue	nmod:poss
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tongue	amod
19	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tongue	amod
20	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wraps	obj
21	around	around	ADP	_	22 grass	case
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wraps	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 pull	mark
24	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wraps	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pull	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 enough	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 enough	cc
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 tongue	det
29	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 enough	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 enough	cop
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 enough	advmod
32	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 lick	mark
34	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 enough	advcl
35	inside	inside	ADP	_	38 nostrils	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 nostrils	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nostrils	amod
38	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lick	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a cow	no top front teeth and a hard pad			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	wrap	present	pad	pad's long rough tongue	grass		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme around grass=Destination
3	pull	to-infinitive	pad not said here	tongue			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	present	that tongue			enough, long property	tree rules
5	lick	to-infinitive	that tongue not said here		pad's own nostrils		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: 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:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.lesson:14.

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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