Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 10
A dairy goat gives about two to four litres of milk a day; goats do not eat tin cans, they just nibble the labels, and their rectangular pupils help them watch all around for danger.
Who acts: dairy goat, goats, rectangular pupils · What happens: give, not eat, nibble, help, watch · To what, where: two litres, tin cans, labels, goats
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 (dairy goat, goats, rectangular pupils), 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 | 3 goat | det |
| 2 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goat | compound |
| 3 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 litres | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 litres | nummod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 four | case |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 two | nmod |
| 9 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gives | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 milk | case |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 litres | nmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 litres | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 goats | punct |
| 15 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eat | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 eat | advmod |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gives | parataxis |
| 19 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cans | compound |
| 20 | cans | can | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eat | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nibble | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 nibble | nsubj |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 nibble | advmod |
| 24 | nibble | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 labels | det |
| 26 | labels | label | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 nibble | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 help | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 help | cc |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 pupils | nmod:poss |
| 30 | rectangular | rectangular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pupils | amod |
| 31 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 help | nsubj |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 eat | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 help | obj |
| 34 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 help | xcomp |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 around | advmod |
| 36 | around | around | ADV | _ | 34 watch | advmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 danger | case |
| 38 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 watch | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a dairy goat | two litres of milk | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not eat | present · do-support | goats | tin cans | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient | ||||
| 3 | nibble | present | goats = goat | the labels | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient | ||||
| 4 | help | infinitive | goats's rectangular pupils | goats = goat | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | watch | infinitive | goats = goat not said here | for danger; around property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for danger=Theme |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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