Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 1

A sheep is a crowd animal: watch a flock at a gate and as soon as one sheep goes through, the rest pour after it, because for a prey animal the safest place is in the middle of the group.

Who acts: sheep, one sheep, rest, safest place · What happens: be, watch, go through, pour · To what, where: crowd animal, flock, gate, middle

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, one sheep, rest, safest place), 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 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	compound
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 watch	punct
8	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flock	det
10	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watch	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 gate	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watch	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pour	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 soon	advmod
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 pour	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 goes	mark
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sheep	nummod
19	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 goes	nsubj
20	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 soon	advcl
21	through	through	ADV	_	20 goes	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pour	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pour	nsubj
25	pour	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 watch	conj
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pour	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 middle	punct
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	40 middle	mark
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 animal	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 animal	det
32	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 animal	compound
33	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 middle	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 place	det
35	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 place	amod
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 middle	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 middle	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 middle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 middle	det
40	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watch	parataxis
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 group	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 group	det
43	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 middle	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 animal	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a sheep	a crowd animal				tree rules
2	watch	infinitive		a flock	a gate			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
3	go through	present	one sheep				through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pour	present	the rest			after gate	soon property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	is	present	the safest place		the middle		for a prey animal; of the group	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:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:1.

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. 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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