Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 5

Books sometimes say a cow has four stomachs, but it really has one stomach with four parts, and the biggest part is full of microbes that break down tough grass.

Who acts: Books, cow, cud, biggest part, microbes · What happens: say, have, be, break down · To what, where: four stomachs, one stomach, tough grass · 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 (Books, cow, cud, biggest part), 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	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 stomachs	nummod
8	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 has	advmod
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 stomach	nummod
15	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 parts	case
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 parts	nummod
18	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stomach	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 full	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 full	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 part	det
22	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 part	amod
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 full	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 full	cop
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 has	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 microbes	case
27	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 full	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 break	nsubj
29	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 microbes	acl:relcl
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 break	compound:prt
31	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 grass	amod
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 break	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Books		sometimes property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	a cow	four stomachs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient
3	have	present	cud	one stomach	with four parts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient
4	is	present	the biggest part		of microbes; full property	tree rules
5	break down	present	microbes	tough grass		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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:5.

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 ×1, 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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