Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 12

Goats have wide rectangular pupils that give a view almost all the way round, and when a goat lowers its head to eat, its eyes roll so the slit stays level with the ground.

Who acts: Goats, wide rectangular pupils, goat, eyes, slit · What happens: have, give, lower, eat, roll, stay · To what, where: wide rectangular pupils, view, head

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, wide rectangular pupils, goat, eyes), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pupils	amod
4	rectangular	rectangular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pupils	amod
5	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pupils	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 view	det
9	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 way	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 way	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl:unmarked
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 way	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lowers	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lowers	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 lowers	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 goat	det
19	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lowers	nsubj
20	lowers	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 roll	advcl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lowers	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lowers	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 roll	punct
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 roll	nsubj
28	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
29	so	so	SCONJ	_	32 stays	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 slit	det
31	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stays	nsubj
32	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 roll	advcl
33	level	level	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stays	xcomp
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 level	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Goats	wide rectangular pupils		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Patient
2	give	present	wide rectangular pupils	a view	all way obl:unmarked	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme
3	lower	present	a goat	way's head		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	a goat not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	roll	present	head's eyes			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stay	present	the slit		level property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:12.

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 ×4, R7-rel-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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