Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 8

Lambs skip and play, which builds muscles and friendships, and a ewe, a mother sheep, and her lamb find each other in a noisy field by their calls.

Who acts: Lambs, ewe, Sheep · What happens: skip, play, build, find, call · To what, where: muscles, each, noisy field · 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 (Lambs, ewe, 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	Lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 skip	nsubj
2	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 play	cc
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 skip	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 builds	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 builds	nsubj
7	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 play	acl:relcl
8	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 builds	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 friendships	cc
10	friendships	friendship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 muscles	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ewe	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ewe	det
14	ewe	ewe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sheep	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sheep	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sheep	compound
18	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ewe	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 find	cc
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lamb	nmod:poss
22	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	nsubj
23	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 skip	conj
24	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	23 find	obj
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 each	fixed
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 field	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 field	det
28	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 field	amod
29	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 calls	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 calls	nmod:poss
32	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 find	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 skip	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	skip	present	Lambs				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	present	Lambs not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	build	present		muscles and friendships			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset muscle=Product
4	find	present	a ewe	each	a noisy field	by Sheep's calls	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic
5	call		Sheep				nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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:8.

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 ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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