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title: In experiments sheep learned to recognise the faces of other sheep a… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In experiments sheep learned to recognise the faces of other sheep and of some famous people from photos. Who acts: sheep. 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 with its dependency tree a
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# Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 5

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In experiments sheep learned to recognise the faces of other sheep and of some famous people from photos.

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**Who acts:** sheep · **What happens:** learn, recognise · **To what, where:** experiments, faces

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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 (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:5
# text = In experiments sheep learned to recognise the faces of other sheep and of some famous people from photos.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **learn** | past | sheep |  |  | experiments |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **recognise** | to-infinitive | sheep *not said here* | the faces of other sheep and some famous people from photos |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |

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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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**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: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): 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.

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

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