Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 9

Sheep nibble with a split top lip and can graze grass shorter than cows can; sheep, goats and cows all chew the cud, bringing food back up to chew it again.

Who acts: Sheep · What happens: nibble, split, graze, chew, bring back · To what, where: grass, cud, food

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), 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 nibble	nsubj
2	nibble	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 lip	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lip	det
5	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lip	amod
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lip	compound
7	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nibble	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 graze	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 graze	aux
10	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 nibble	conj
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 graze	obj
12	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 graze	parataxis
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 can	mark
14	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 can	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 shorter	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 nibble	punct
17	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 chew	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 goats	punct
19	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sheep	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cows	cc
21	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sheep	conj
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 chew	advmod
23	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 nibble	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cud	det
25	cud	cud	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 chew	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 chew	punct
27	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 chew	advcl
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bringing	obj
29	back	back	ADV	_	27 bringing	advmod
30	up	up	ADV	_	27 bringing	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 chew	mark
32	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bringing	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 chew	obj
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 chew	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nibble	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	present	Sheep			with a split top lip	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	split	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	graze	can	Sheep not said here	grass			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Experiencer
4	chew	present	sheep and goats and cows	the cud		all property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient
5	bring back	gerund	sheep and goats and cows not said here	food			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme
6	chew	to-infinitive	sheep and goats and cows not said here	food	again		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:9.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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