Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 17
A cow can live about 20 years, a horse about 25 to 30, a sheep about 10 to 12, a hen about 8 and a goat about 15, but most farm animals are sold or slaughtered long before they are old.
Who acts: cow, animals · What happens: live, sell, slaughter, be · To what, where: horse, most farm animals
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, animals), 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 | 4 live | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 20 | advmod |
| 6 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 horse | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 25 | advmod |
| 12 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 horse | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 30 | case |
| 14 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 25 | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sheep | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sheep | det |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | appos |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 10 | advmod |
| 19 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 sheep | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 12 | case |
| 21 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 10 | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hen | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hen | det |
| 24 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 10 | appos |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 8 | advmod |
| 26 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 hen | nummod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 15 | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 goat | det |
| 29 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 15 | nsubj |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 15 | advmod |
| 31 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 8 | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sold | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 sold | cc |
| 34 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 animals | amod |
| 35 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 animals | compound |
| 36 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 sold | aux:pass |
| 38 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 live | conj |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 slaughtered | cc |
| 40 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 sold | conj |
| 41 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 slaughtered | advmod |
| 42 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 45 old | mark |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 old | nsubj |
| 44 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 old | cop |
| 45 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 long | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | 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 | live | can | a cow | a horse 25 to 30 | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sell | present · passive | most farm animals | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | slaughter | participle | long property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | animals = animal | old property | tree rules |
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:17.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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