Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 1

A cow stands on two big toes on each foot, with two little dewclaws higher up, while a horse runs on just one toe per foot, its hoof a giant toenail.

Who acts: cow, horse · What happens: stand, run · To what, where: two big toes, hoof, one toe

This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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, horse), 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 stands	nsubj
3	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 toes	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 toes	nummod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toes	amod
7	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stands	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 foot	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 foot	det
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 toes	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 higher	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 dewclaws	case
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 dewclaws	nummod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dewclaws	amod
15	dewclaws	dewclaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stands	obl
16	higher	higher	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 dewclaws	amod
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 higher	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 runs	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 runs	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 runs	nsubj
22	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stands	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 toe	case
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 one	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 toe	nummod
26	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 runs	obl
27	per	per	ADP	_	28 foot	case
28	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 toe	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hoof	punct
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hoof	nmod:poss
31	hoof	hoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 runs	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 toenail	det
33	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 toenail	amod
34	toenail	toenail	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hoof	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stands	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a cow			two big toes on each foot		with two little dewclaws	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on toe=Location
2	run	present	a horse	horse's hoof		one toe per foot			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory

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:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.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): no change. 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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