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title: Look a sheep in the eye and you will see a long sideways slit for a… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look a sheep in the eye and you will see a long sideways slit for a pupil, giving it a wide view of the ground all around so it can spot a fox while it grazes. Who acts: you, view. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» of the biology 
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# Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 1

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Look a sheep in the eye and you will see a long sideways slit for a pupil, giving it a wide view of the ground all around so it can spot a fox while it grazes.

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**Who acts:** you, view · **What happens:** look, see, give, spot, graze, view · **To what, where:** sheep, eye, long sideways slit, wide view, slit, fox

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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, view), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:1
# text = Look a sheep in the eye and you will see a long sideways slit for a pupil, giving it a wide view of the ground all around so it can spot a fox while it grazes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×4
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
13	sideways	sideway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj
14	slit	slit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	around	around	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	grazes	graze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | a sheep |  | the eye |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sheep=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | future | you | a long sideways slit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slit=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | you *not said here* | a wide view of the ground | slit |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient view=Theme |
| 4 | **spot** | can | view |  | a fox |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fox=Destination |
| 5 | **graze** | present | view |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **view** |  |  | the ground |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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 ×4. **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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