Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 14

Many goats have beards, both males and females; most sheep do not, and a goat's tail usually points up while a sheep's hangs down.

Who acts: Many goats, most sheep, tail, sheep · What happens: have, not do, point up, hang down · To what, where: beards

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 (Many goats, most sheep, tail, sheep), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goats	amod
2	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 males	punct
6	both	both	CCONJ	_	7 males	cc:preconj
7	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beards	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 females	cc
9	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 males	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 sheep	amod
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 do	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 points	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 points	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 goat	det
18	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tail	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 goat	case
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 points	nsubj
21	usually	usually	ADV	_	22 points	advmod
22	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 points	compound:prt
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 hangs	mark
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sheep	det
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hangs	nsubj
27	's	's	PART	_	26 sheep	case
28	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 points	advcl
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 hangs	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Many goats	beards		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient
2	not do	present	most sheep			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	point up	present	a goat's tail		usually property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hang down	present	a sheep		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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