Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, sentence 4

A cow chews grass twice, a pig rolls in mud to keep cool, and a sheepdog moves sheep the way a wolf would, because sheep bunch together for safety.

Who acts: cow, pig, sheepdog, sheep · What happens: chew, roll, keep, move, bunch together · To what, where: grass, mud, sheep

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, pig, sheepdog, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chews	nsubj
3	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chews	obj
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 chews	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rolls	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pig	det
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rolls	nsubj
9	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chews	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 mud	case
11	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rolls	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 rolls	advcl
14	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 moves	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 moves	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sheepdog	det
18	sheepdog	sheepdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moves	nsubj
19	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chews	conj
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 moves	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 moves	obl:unmarked
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wolf	det
24	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 would	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 way	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 moves	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 bunch	mark
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bunch	nsubj
29	bunch	bunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 moves	advcl
30	together	together	ADV	_	29 bunch	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 safety	case
32	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bunch	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chews	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chew	present	a cow	grass		twice property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	roll	present	a pig		mud		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory
3	keep	to-infinitive	a pig not said here			cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	move	present	a sheepdog	sheep		the way obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme sheep=Result
5	bunch together	present	sheep			for safety; together property	tree rules

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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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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