Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 4
Farm sheep were bred to grow wool that keeps growing, while wild sheep shed their coats, so farm sheep must be shorn, their wool cut off, usually once a year in spring or early summer.
Who acts: wool, wild sheep, farm sheep · What happens: breed, grow, keep, shed, be, cut off · To what, where: Farm sheep, wool, coats
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 (wool, wild sheep, farm 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 | Farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sheep | compound |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bred | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bred | aux:pass |
| 4 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 grow | mark |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bred | advcl |
| 7 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 keeps | nsubj |
| 9 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wool | acl:relcl |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 keeps | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shed | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 shed | mark |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sheep | amod |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shed | nsubj |
| 15 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 growing | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 coats | nmod:poss |
| 17 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shorn | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 shorn | advmod |
| 20 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sheep | compound |
| 21 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shorn | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 shorn | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 shorn | cop |
| 24 | shorn | shear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bred | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wool | punct |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wool | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shorn | conj |
| 28 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 wool | acl |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 cut | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 once | punct |
| 31 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 32 once | advmod |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 bred | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 year | det |
| 34 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 once | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 spring | case |
| 36 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 once | obl |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 summer | cc |
| 38 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 summer | amod |
| 39 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spring | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bred | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | past · passive | Farm sheep | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | wool | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | wool | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | wool not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shed | past | wild sheep | Sheep's coats | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Source | ||||
| 6 | is | must | farm sheep | shear property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | cut off | participle | Sheep's wool not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:4.
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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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