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title: Most farm sheep grow wool that never stops, so they must be shorn at… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most farm sheep grow wool that never stops, so they must be shorn at least once a year, while wild sheep shed their coats every spring; an Australian merino that escaped shearing for years carried about 41 kilograms of fleece. Who acts: Most farm sheep, wool, wild sheep, Australian merino. A sentenc
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# Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 7

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Most farm sheep grow wool that never stops, so they must be shorn at least once a year, while wild sheep shed their coats every spring; an Australian merino that escaped shearing for years carried about 41 kilograms of fleece.

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**Who acts:** Most farm sheep, wool, wild sheep, Australian merino · **What happens:** grow, not stop, shear, shed, escape, carry · **To what, where:** wool, goats, coats, shearing, 41 kilograms

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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 (Most farm sheep, wool, wild sheep, Australian merino), 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:7
# text = Most farm sheep grow wool that never stops, so they must be shorn at least once a year, while wild sheep shed their coats every spring; an Australian merino that escaped shearing for years carried about 41 kilograms of fleece.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	shorn	shear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	at	at	ADV	RB	_	16	fixed	_	_
16	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shed	shed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	merino	merino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	shearing	shearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
39	about	about	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	41	41	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | Most farm sheep | wool |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | present | wool |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shear** | must · passive |  | goats *= goat* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **shed** | past | wild sheep | goats's coats |  |  | spring |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Source |
| 5 | **escape** | past | a Australian merino | shearing |  |  | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shearing=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **carry** | past | a Australian merino | 41 kilograms of fleece |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Theme |

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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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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