The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 5
Goats and sheep have wide, flat pupils that give a wide view of the ground to spot predators, and when a goat lowers its head its eyes turn to keep the pupils level.
Who acts: Goats, wide flat pupils, goat, eyes · What happens: have, give, spot, lower, turn, keep · To what, where: wide flat pupils, wide view, predators, head, pupils, ground
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, wide flat pupils, goat, eyes), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sheep | cc |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Goats | conj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pupils | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wide | punct |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pupils | amod |
| 8 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 give | nsubj |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pupils | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 view | det |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 view | amod |
| 13 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 view | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 spot | mark |
| 18 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | advcl |
| 19 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spot | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 turn | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 turn | cc |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 lowers | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 goat | det |
| 24 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lowers | nsubj |
| 25 | lowers | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 turn | advcl |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lowers | obj |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 turn | nsubj |
| 30 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 keep | mark |
| 32 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 turn | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pupils | det |
| 34 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keep | obj |
| 35 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 keep | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | 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 | have | present | Goats and sheep | wide flat pupils | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | present | wide flat pupils | a wide view of the ground | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spot | to-infinitive | wide flat pupils not said here | predators | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme predator=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lower | present | a goat | goat's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 5 | turn | present | goat's eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | goat's eyes not said here | the pupils | level property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme | |||
| 7 | view | the ground | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:5.
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 ×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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