Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 7
Only female cattle give milk, from the udder, the bag under the tummy: «cow» means a female, males are bulls or bullocks, the young are calves and a group is a herd.
Who acts: female cattle, cow, males, young, group · What happens: give, mean, be · To what, where: milk, udder, female, bulls, calves, herd
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 (female cattle, cow, males, young), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 cattle | advmod |
| 2 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cattle | amod |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 udder | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 udder | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 udder | det |
| 9 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bag | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bag | det |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 milk | conj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 tummy | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tummy | det |
| 15 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bag | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 cow | punct |
| 18 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | nsubj |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 cow | punct |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 female | det |
| 22 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bulls | punct |
| 24 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bulls | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bulls | cop |
| 26 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 means | parataxis |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 bullocks | cc |
| 28 | bullocks | bullock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bulls | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 calves | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 young | det |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 calves | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 calves | cop |
| 33 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bulls | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 herd | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 group | det |
| 36 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 herd | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 herd | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 herd | det |
| 39 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bulls | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | female cattle | milk and the bag under the tummy | the udder | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | |||
| 2 | mean | present | cow | a female | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | males | bulls or bullocks and calves and a herd | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the young | calves | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a group | a herd | tree rules |
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:7.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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