A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 9

A lamb whose mother has no milk is fed by bottle and then follows people around; a spare lamb can be given to a ewe that lost hers if it is rubbed with her lamb's smell.

Who acts: mother, ewe, lamb · What happens: have, feed, follow around, give, lose, rub · To what, where: milk, lamb, people, spare lamb, ewe, mother

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 (mother, ewe, lamb), 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 lamb	det
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fed	nsubj:pass
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lamb	acl:relcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 milk	det
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	aux:pass
9	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 bottle	case
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 follows	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 follows	advmod
14	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	conj
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 follows	obj
16	around	around	ADV	_	14 follows	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 given	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lamb	det
19	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lamb	amod
20	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	nsubj:pass
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 given	aux:pass
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fed	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 ewe	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 ewe	det
26	ewe	ewe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 given	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lost	nsubj
28	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ewe	acl:relcl
29	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lost	obj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 rubbed	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rubbed	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 rubbed	aux:pass
33	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 lost	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	38 smell	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lamb	nmod:poss
36	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 smell	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 lamb	case
38	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rubbed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	mother	no milk				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
2	feed	present · passive		a lamb			by bottle	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
3	follow around	present		people		then	around property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	give	can · passive		a spare lamb	a ewe			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ewe=Recipient
5	lose	past	a ewe	mother				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Eventuality
6	rub a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		muck			with mother's lamb's smell	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with smell=Theme
7	smell		mother's lamb					nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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:9.

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 ×1, 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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