Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 13
Mother goats and their kids, baby goats, know each other's voices, and a study reported that young goats' calls change to sound more like the group they live with, a little like an accent.
Who acts: Mother goats, study, calls, goats, young goats · What happens: know, report, change, sound, live, call · To what, where: other voices, group · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mother goats, study, calls, 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goats | compound |
| 2 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 know | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kids | cc |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kids | nmod:poss |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goats | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 goats | punct |
| 7 | baby | baby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goats | amod |
| 8 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 goats | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 goats | punct |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 voices | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voices | amod |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 voices | case |
| 14 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 know | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reported | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reported | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 study | det |
| 18 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reported | nsubj |
| 19 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 change | mark |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 goats | amod |
| 22 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 calls | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 goats | case |
| 24 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 change | nsubj |
| 25 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 reported | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sound | mark |
| 27 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 change | xcomp |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 sound | advmod |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 group | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 group | det |
| 31 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sound | obl |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 live | nsubj |
| 33 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 group | acl:relcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 live | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 little | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 little | det |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 change | conj |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 accent | case |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 accent | det |
| 40 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 little | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Mother goats and goats's kids and baby goats | each other voices | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | report | past | a study | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | change | present | young goats's calls | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sound | to-infinitive | young goats's calls not said here | like the group | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | live | present | goats = goat | the group not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme group=Location | ||||
| 6 | call | young goats | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:13.
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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