---
title: Real sheep live in flocks, stay close to their friends and get stres… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real sheep live in flocks, stay close to their friends and get stressed when alone, because a lone sheep is easy for a fox or dog to catch. Who acts: Real sheep, lone sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» of the biology course 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/) / 4

# Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Real sheep live in flocks, stay close to their friends and get stressed when alone, because a lone sheep is easy for a fox or dog to catch.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Real sheep, lone sheep · **What happens:** live, stay, stress, be, catch · **To what, where:** flocks

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Real sheep, lone sheep), 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:4
# text = Real sheep live in flocks, stay close to their friends and get stressed when alone, because a lone sheep is easy for a fox or dog to catch.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	stressed	stress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Real sheep |  |  | flocks |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flock=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | present | Real sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stress** | infinitive · passive | Real sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is** | present | a lone sheep |  |  |  |  | for a fox or dog; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | a lone sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/3/)
- next →: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/5/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/)

