Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 4

A cow chews the cud: it swallows grass, later brings it back up and chews it again to break it down, for many hours a day.

Who acts: cow, cud · What happens: chew, swallow, bring, break down · To what, where: cud, grass

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, cud), 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 chews	nsubj
3	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cud	det
5	cud	cud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chews	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 swallows	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 swallows	nsubj
8	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chews	parataxis
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swallows	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brings	punct
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 brings	advmod
12	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 swallows	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brings	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	15 up	advmod
15	up	up	ADV	_	12 brings	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 chews	cc
17	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 brings	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chews	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 chews	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 break	mark
21	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 chews	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 break	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	21 break	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hours	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 hours	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hours	amod
27	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 break	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hours	nmod:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chews	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chew	present	a cow	the cud			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient
2	swallow	present	cud	grass			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	bring	present	cud not said here	Grass		late property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	chew	present	cud not said here	Grass	again		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	break down	to-infinitive	cud not said here	Grass	hour		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:4.

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 ×3. 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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