A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 1

In late winter and spring the farmer stays up all night in the lambing shed, because ewes often have twins and some lambs get stuck or are born weak.

Who acts: farmer, ewes, lambs · What happens: stay up, have, get, bear · To what, where: lambing shed, twins

This is a sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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 (farmer, ewes, lambs), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 winter	case
2	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 winter	amod
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stays	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 spring	cc
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 winter	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stays	nsubj
8	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stays	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 shed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shed	det
14	lambing	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shed	compound
15	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stays	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
18	ewes	ewe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	nsubj
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stays	advcl
21	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 get	cc
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 lambs	det
24	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 get	nsubj
25	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 have	conj
26	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 have	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 born	cc
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 born	aux:pass
29	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 stuck	conj
30	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 born	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stays	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	present	the farmer		the lambing shed	night; winter		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme night=Location
2	have	present	ewes	twins			often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Patient
3	get	present	some lambs					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	bear	present · passive	ewes not said here				weak property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

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:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.lesson:1.

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 ×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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