A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 3

In early summer the sheep are sheared, and in June the grass is cut, dried in the sun, turned and baled as hay, or wrapped airtight in black plastic so it pickles into silage.

Who acts: grass · What happens: shear, cut, dry, turn, bale, wrap · To what, where: sheep, grass, sun, silage

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 (grass), 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 summer	case
2	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summer	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sheared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sheared	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sheared	aux:pass
7	sheared	shear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cut	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 June	case
11	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 cut	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grass	det
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cut	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 cut	aux:pass
15	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sheared	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dried	punct
17	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cut	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sun	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dried	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
22	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cut	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 baled	cc
24	baled	bale	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 turned	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 hay	case
26	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 baled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wrapped	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 wrapped	cc
29	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sheared	conj
30	airtight	airtight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wrapped	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 plastic	case
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plastic	amod
33	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 airtight	obl
34	so	so	SCONJ	_	36 pickles	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 pickles	nsubj
36	pickles	pickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 wrapped	advcl
37	into	into	ADP	_	38 silage	case
38	silage	silage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pickles	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sheared	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shear	present · passive		the sheep		summer		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Initial_Location
2	cut	present · passive		the grass		june		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	dry	participle			the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	turn	participle						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	bale	participle					as hay	tree rules
6	wrap	participle					airtight property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
7	pickle	present	grass				into silage result	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into silage=Result

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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×3. 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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