Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 10

Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.

Who acts: Goats · What happens: prefer, climb, eat · To what, where: leaves, argan trees, Morocco, fruit

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 (Goats), 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	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prefer	nsubj
2	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prefer	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 twigs	punct
5	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaves	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shrubs	cc
7	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaves	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 grass	case
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prefer	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 climb	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 climb	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Morocco	case
13	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 climb	obl
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 goats	det
15	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 climb	nsubj
16	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prefer	conj
17	argan	argan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	compound
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 climb	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 climb	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fruit	det
22	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	Goats	leaves and twigs and shrubs		to grass	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leaf=Stimulus
2	climb	present	some goats	argan trees	Morocco		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	some goats not said here	the fruit			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:10.

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): 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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