Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 2
Let a cow lick your hand and you will see she has no top front teeth at all, only a hard pad of gum: she wraps her tongue round the grass, pulls it against the pad and tears it.
Who acts: you, cow · What happens: let, lick, see, have, wrap, pull · To what, where: cow, hand, top front teeth, all, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, cow), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cow | det |
| 3 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lick | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 teeth | det |
| 14 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 teeth | amod |
| 15 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 teeth | amod |
| 16 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 has | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pad | punct |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 pad | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pad | det |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pad | amod |
| 23 | pad | pad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gum | case |
| 25 | gum | gum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pad | nmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 wraps | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wraps | nsubj |
| 28 | wraps | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pad | parataxis |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 30 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wraps | obj |
| 31 | round | round | ADP | _ | 33 grass | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 grass | det |
| 33 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wraps | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pulls | punct |
| 35 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wraps | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 pulls | obj |
| 37 | against | against | ADP | _ | 39 pad | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pad | det |
| 39 | pad | pad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pulls | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 tears | cc |
| 41 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 pulls | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 tears | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | a cow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lick | infinitive | a cow not said here | your hand | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | present | cow | no top front teeth | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||
| 5 | wrap | present | cow | cow's tongue | round the grass | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | |||
| 6 | pull | present | cow not said here | tongue | against the pad | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 7 | tear | present | cow not said here | tongue | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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:2.
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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