The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 4

Goats are curious browsers that nibble a bit of everything, but they do not really eat tin cans; they nibble paper labels and test things with their lips.

Who acts: Goats, curious browsers, fur · What happens: be, nibble, not eat, test · To what, where: curious browsers, bit, tin cans, paper labels

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 (Goats, curious browsers, fur), 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	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 browsers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 browsers	cop
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 browsers	amod
4	browsers	browser	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 nibble	nsubj
6	nibble	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 browsers	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nibble	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 everything	case
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 bit	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eat	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 eat	advmod
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 eat	advmod
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 browsers	conj
18	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cans	compound
19	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eat	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 nibble	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 nibble	nsubj
22	nibble	nibble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 browsers	parataxis
23	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 labels	compound
24	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nibble	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 things	cc
26	test	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 nibble	conj
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 labels	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 lips	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lips	nmod:poss
30	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 test	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 browsers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Goats	curious browsers		tree rules
2	nibble	present	curious browsers	a bit of everything		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
3	not eat	present · do-support	fur	tin cans		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient
4	nibble	present	fur	paper labels and things		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient
5	test	present	fur not said here		with fur's lips	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: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): R5-strong ×2, 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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