Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 0
Sheep and goats are cousins that people have kept for about ten thousand years, but they live very different lives.
Who acts: Sheep, people · What happens: be, keep, live · To what, where: cousins, different lives
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can 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 (Sheep, people), 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 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cousins | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 goats | cc |
| 3 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sheep | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cousins | cop |
| 5 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 kept | obj |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | aux |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cousins | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 thousand | advmod |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 thousand | compound |
| 13 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 live | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 live | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 live | nsubj |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | conj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 different | advmod |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lives | amod |
| 21 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 live | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cousins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sheep and goats | cousins | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present · perfect | people | cousins | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 3 | live | present | people | different lives | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
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:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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