Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, sentence 14
Sheep flock together for safety, a sheepdog moves them like a wolf would, the shepherd directs the dog with whistles, and sheep are sheared about once a year, so their fleece can be spun into wool and they stay cool in summer.
Who acts: Sheep, sheepdog, shepherd, microbes · What happens: flock together, move, direct, shear, spin, stay · To what, where: microbes, dog, sheep, fleece, wool
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 (Sheep, sheepdog, shepherd, 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 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flock | nsubj |
| 2 | flock | flock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 flock | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 safety | case |
| 5 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flock | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 safety | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sheepdog | det |
| 8 | sheepdog | sheepdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moves | nsubj |
| 9 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flock | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 moves | obj |
| 11 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 14 would | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 would | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 moves | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 directs | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shepherd | det |
| 17 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 directs | nsubj |
| 18 | directs | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 moves | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 directs | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 whistles | case |
| 22 | whistles | whistle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 directs | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sheared | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sheared | cc |
| 25 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sheared | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 sheared | aux:pass |
| 27 | sheared | shear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 moves | conj |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 once | advmod |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 sheared | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 year | det |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 once | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 spun | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 spun | advmod |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 fleece | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 spun | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 spun | aux:pass |
| 38 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 sheared | parataxis |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 wool | case |
| 40 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 spun | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 stay | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 stay | nsubj |
| 43 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 spun | conj |
| 44 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stay | xcomp |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 summer | case |
| 46 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 stay | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flock | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flock together | present | Sheep | for safety; together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | move | present | a sheepdog | microbes = microbe | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | direct | present | the shepherd | the dog | with whistles | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||
| 4 | shear | present · passive | sheep | once property | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | spin | can · passive | microbes's fleece | wool | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into wool=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | stay | present | microbes = microbe | summer | cool property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:14.
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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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