Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 3

Farm sheep grow wool that never stops growing, so every spring a shearer gives them a haircut, and a goat that seems to eat a tin can is really only nibbling the paper label to find out what it is.

Who acts: Farm sheep, wool, shearer, goat · What happens: grow, not stop, give, seem, eat, nibble · To what, where: wool, haircut, Sheep, tin can, paper label · 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 (Farm sheep, wool, shearer, goat), 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	Farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	compound
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stops	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 stops	advmod
7	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wool	acl:relcl
8	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stops	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gives	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 gives	advmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 spring	det
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	obl:unmarked
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shearer	det
14	shearer	shearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	nsubj
15	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gives	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 haircut	det
18	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gives	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nibbling	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 nibbling	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 goat	det
22	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nibbling	nsubj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 seems	nsubj
24	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 goat	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seems	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 can	det
28	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 can	compound
29	can	can	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	obj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 nibbling	aux
31	really	really	ADV	_	33 nibbling	advmod
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 nibbling	advmod
33	nibbling	nibble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 gives	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 label	det
35	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 label	compound
36	label	label	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 nibbling	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 find	mark
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 nibbling	advcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 find	compound:prt
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 find	ccomp
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 what	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 what	cop
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	grow	present	Farm sheep	wool			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme
2	not stop	present	wool				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	wool not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	present	a shearer	a haircut	Sheep	spring	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient haircut=Theme
5	seem	present	a goat				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	eat	to-infinitive	a goat not said here	a tin can			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient
7	nibble	present · progressive	a goat	the paper label			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient
8	find out	to-infinitive	a goat not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
9	is a	present	shearer				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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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