A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 10

Sheep are sheared in early summer, a good shearer taking about two minutes per sheep, because most sheep are bred to keep growing wool and would get too hot and dirty.

Who acts: good shearer · What happens: shear, take, breed, keep, grow, get · To what, where: Sheep, most sheep, wool

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 (good shearer), 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	3 sheared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sheared	aux:pass
3	sheared	shear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 summer	amod
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sheared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shearer	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shearer	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shearer	amod
10	shearer	shearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	nsubj
11	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sheared	advcl
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 two	advmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 minutes	nummod
14	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 taking	obj
15	per	per	ADP	_	16 sheep	case
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 minutes	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bred	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 bred	mark
19	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 sheep	amod
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bred	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bred	aux:pass
22	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sheared	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bred	advcl
25	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 keep	xcomp
26	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 growing	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 get	cc
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bred	conj
30	too	too	ADV	_	31 hot	advmod
31	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 get	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dirty	cc
33	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hot	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sheared	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shear	present · passive		Sheep	summer		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Initial_Location
2	take	gerund	a good shearer		minute		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	breed	present · passive		most sheep			tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive					tree rules
5	grow	gerund		wool			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme
6	get	would				hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:10.

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 ×3, 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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