Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 6

Sheep stay together and follow each other because a flock is safer from predators, and they are not stupid: sheep can remember dozens of faces for years.

Who acts: Sheep, flock · What happens: stay together, follow, be, not be, remember · To what, where: each, predators, dozens

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 (Sheep, flock), 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	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stay	nsubj
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 stay	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 follow	cc
5	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stay	conj
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 follow	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 safer	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flock	det
10	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 safer	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safer	cop
12	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 follow	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 predators	case
14	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 safer	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stupid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stupid	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stupid	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stupid	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 stupid	advmod
20	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 safer	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 remember	punct
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 remember	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 remember	aux
24	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stupid	parataxis
25	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 remember	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 faces	case
27	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dozens	nmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 years	case
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 remember	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay together	present	Sheep				together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	present	Sheep not said here	each				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
3	is	present	a flock		predators		safe property	tree rules
4	not is	present	Sheep				stupid property	tree rules
5	remember	can	sheep	dozens of faces		year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dozen=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:6.

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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