Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 7
A heavy sheep with a thick fleece can roll onto its back and be unable to get up; this is called being cast, and a cast sheep can die, so farmers help it up.
Who acts: heavy sheep, cast sheep, farmers · What happens: roll, be, get up, call, cast, die · To what, where: back, this · 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 (heavy sheep, cast sheep, farmers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sheep | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sheep | amod |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roll | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fleece | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fleece | det |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fleece | amod |
| 7 | fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sheep | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 roll | aux |
| 9 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roll | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unable | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unable | cop |
| 15 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 roll | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unable | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 get | compound:prt |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 roll | parataxis |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 cast | aux:pass |
| 24 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 called | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 die | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 die | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sheep | det |
| 28 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sheep | compound |
| 29 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 die | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 die | aux |
| 31 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 roll | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 help | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 help | advmod |
| 34 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 help | nsubj |
| 35 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 roll | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 help | obj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 help | compound:prt |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 roll | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | can | a heavy sheep with a thick fleece | fleece's back | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto back=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | a heavy sheep with a thick fleece not said here | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get up | to-infinitive | a heavy sheep with a thick fleece not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | cast | gerund · passive | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 6 | die | can | a cast sheep | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | help up | present | farmers | back | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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:7.
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 ×3. 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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