Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 6

A cow makes milk only after having a calf, because, like all mammals, mothers make milk for their babies; a dairy cow can give over twenty litres a day.

Who acts: cow, mothers, dairy cow · What happens: make, have, give over · To what, where: milk, calf, twenty litres

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, mothers, dairy cow), 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 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 having	advmod
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 having	mark
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 calf	det
9	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 make	mark
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 because	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 mammals	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 mammals	det
15	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mammals	punct
17	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	nsubj
18	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	advcl
19	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 babies	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 babies	nmod:poss
22	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cow	det
25	dairy	dairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cow	compound
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 give	aux
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	conj
29	over	over	ADV	_	30 twenty	advmod
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 litres	nummod
31	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 give	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obl:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a cow	milk			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product
2	have	gerund	a cow not said here	a calf			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient
3	make	present	mothers	milk		like all mammals; for mothers's babies	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent milk=Material for baby=Beneficiary
4	give over	can	a dairy cow	twenty litres	day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme

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:6.

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 ×2, 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.

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