Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 4

Count teats and you can guess family sizes: a ewe has two teats and twins are most common, while a sow has about fourteen for her litter of eight to twelve piglets, and each piglet keeps its own favourite teat.

Who acts: you, ewe, twins, sow, piglet · What happens: count, guess, have, be, keep · To what, where: teats, family sizes, two teats, fourteen, own favourite teat · 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, ewe, twins, sow), 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	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 guess	advcl
2	teats	teat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Count	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 guess	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 guess	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 guess	aux
6	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sizes	compound
8	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 guess	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ewe	det
11	ewe	ewe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 guess	ccomp
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 teats	nummod
14	teats	teat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 common	cc
16	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 common	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 common	cop
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 common	advmod
19	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 has	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fourteen	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 has	mark
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sow	det
23	sow	sow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 common	advcl
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 fourteen	advmod
26	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 has	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 litter	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 litter	nmod:poss
29	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 piglets	case
31	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 piglets	nummod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 twelve	case
33	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 eight	nmod
34	piglets	piglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 litter	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 keeps	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 keeps	cc
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	38 piglet	det
38	piglet	piglet	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 keeps	nsubj
39	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 has	conj
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 teat	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 teat	amod
42	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 teat	amod
43	teat	teat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 keeps	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	count	infinitive	you not said here	teats		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Theme
2	guess	can	you	family sizes		tree rules
3	have	present	a ewe	two teats		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Patient
4	is	present	twins		common property	tree rules
5	have	present	a sow	fourteen	for sow's litter of eight piglets	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourteen=Patient
6	keep	present	each piglet	ewe's own favourite teat		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=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:4.

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. 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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