The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 1

Each of these animals is built for its own life: the goat's flat pupils watch the ground for wolves, the cow's long tongue grabs grass, and the rabbit's front teeth never stop growing.

Who acts: flat pupils, long tongue, front teeth · What happens: build, watch, grab, not stop, grow · To what, where: Each, ground, grass

This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 (flat pupils, long tongue, front teeth), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 built	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 animals	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Each	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 built	aux:pass
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 life	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 life	amod
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 watch	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goat	det
13	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pupils	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 goat	case
15	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pupils	amod
16	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 watch	nsubj
17	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 built	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 watch	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 wolves	case
21	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 watch	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grabs	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cow	det
24	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tongue	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 cow	case
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tongue	amod
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grabs	nsubj
28	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 watch	conj
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grabs	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stop	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 stop	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rabbit	det
33	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 teeth	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 rabbit	case
35	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 teeth	amod
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stop	nsubj
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 stop	advmod
38	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 built	conj
39	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 stop	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 built	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		Each	for its own life	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for life=Asset
2	watch	present	the goat's flat pupils	the ground	for wolves	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Location for wolf=Theme
3	grab	present	the cow's long tongue	grass		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
4	not stop	present	the rabbit's front teeth			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	grow	gerund	the rabbit's front teeth not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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