The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 6

Farm sheep grow wool all the time and must be shorn every year, because people bred them to keep their wool; a sheep called Shrek in New Zealand escaped shearing for six years and grew 27 kilograms of wool.

Who acts: Farm sheep, people, sheep · What happens: grow, shorn, breed, keep, call, escape · To what, where: wool, sheep, 27 kilograms · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Farm sheep, people, sheep), 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	Farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sheep	compound
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shorn	cc
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 shorn	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 shorn	aux:pass
11	shorn	shorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grow	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shorn	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bred	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 bred	mark
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bred	nsubj
17	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shorn	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bred	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 keep	mark
20	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bred	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wool	nmod:poss
22	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 escaped	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sheep	det
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 escaped	nsubj
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sheep	acl
27	Shrek	Shrek	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 Zealand	case
29	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Zealand	flat
30	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Shrek	nmod
31	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	parataxis
32	shearing	shear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 escaped	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 years	case
34	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 years	nummod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 escaped	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grew	cc
37	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 escaped	conj
38	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 kilograms	nummod
39	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grew	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 wool	case
41	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 kilograms	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	grow	present	Farm sheep	wool	time	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme
2	shorn	must · passive	Farm sheep not said here		year	tree rules
3	breed	past	people	sheep		tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	people not said here	sheep's wool		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Theme
5	call	participle		a sheep not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	escape	past	a sheep		year	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	shear	gerund				vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	grow	past	a sheep not said here	27 kilograms of wool		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kilogram=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:6.

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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