Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 2

That is why a cow lying in a field seems to chew and chew with nothing new going in: it is bringing swallowed grass back up and chewing it a second time, which is called chewing the cud.

Who acts: That, cow, nothing, secret · What happens: be, lie, seem, chew, go in, bring · To what, where: field, swallowed grass, Grass, second time, cud · 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 (That, cow, nothing, secret), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seems	nsubj
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cow	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 chew	mark
12	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seems	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chew	cc
14	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 chew	conj
15	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 going	nsubj
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nothing	amod
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 chew	advcl
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 bringing	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bringing	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bringing	aux
23	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 seems	advcl
24	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 grass	amod
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bringing	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	27 up	advmod
27	up	up	ADV	_	23 bringing	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 chewing	cc
29	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 bringing	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 chewing	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chewing	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 called	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 called	nsubj:pass
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 called	aux:pass
37	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 time	acl:relcl
38	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 called	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cud	det
40	cud	cud	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 chewing	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That				why property	tree rules
2	lie	gerund	a cow not said here		a field			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location
3	seem	present	a cow					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	chew	to-infinitive	a cow not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	chew	infinitive	a cow not said here					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go in	gerund	nothing					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bring	present · progressive	secret	swallowed grass				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
8	swallow	participle						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	chew	gerund	secret not said here	Grass		time		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
10	call	present · passive		a second time				tree rules
11	chew	gerund		the cud				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient

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:2.

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): R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth/2/