Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, sentence 11
A cow has one stomach with four parts; microbes in the first part break down grass, and the cow brings it back up to chew again, which is called chewing the cud.
Who acts: cow, microbes · What happens: have, break down, bring, chew, call · To what, where: one stomach, grass, cud · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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 (cow, microbes), 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 | 2 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 stomach | nummod |
| 5 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 parts | case |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 parts | nummod |
| 8 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stomach | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 microbes | punct |
| 10 | microbes | microbe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 break | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 microbes | nmod |
| 15 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 break | compound:prt |
| 17 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 break | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brings | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brings | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cow | det |
| 21 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brings | nsubj |
| 22 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brings | obj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 up | advmod |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 brings | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 chew | mark |
| 27 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 brings | advcl |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 chew | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 called | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 called | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 called | aux:pass |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 chew | advcl |
| 33 | chewing | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 called | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 cud | det |
| 35 | cud | cud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 chewing | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a cow | one stomach | with four parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient | |||
| 2 | break down | present | microbes in the first part | grass | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | present | the cow | grass | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chew | to-infinitive | the cow not said here | again | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | call | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | chew | gerund | the cud | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=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:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:11.
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. 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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