--- title: Real herding is a dog's job: sheepdogs come from wolves, which hunt… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics description: Real herding is a dog's job: sheepdogs come from wolves, which hunt by circling and driving prey, so a Border collie crouches, creeps and stares, and the frightened sheep bunch up and move away from it. Who acts: Real herding, sheepdogs, wolves, Border collie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Real herding, sheepdogs, wolves, Border collie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:1 # text = Real herding is a dog's job: sheepdogs come from wolves, which hunt by circling and driving prey, so a Border collie crouches, creeps and stares, and the frightened sheep bunch up and move away from it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 herding herding NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 sheepdogs sheepdog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 circling circle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 20 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 collie collie NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound 26 crouches crouch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 creeps creep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 stares stare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 bunch bunch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 40 away away ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Real herding | a dog's job | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present | sheepdogs | | | wolves | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **hunt** | present | wolves | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **circle** | gerund | wolves *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **drive** | gerund | wolves *not said here* | prey | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme prey=Trajectory | | 6 | **crouch** | present | a Border collie | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **creep** | present | a Border collie *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **stare** | present | a Border collie *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **bunch up** | present | the frightened sheep | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **move away** | present | the frightened sheep *not said here* | | | | | from collie; away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory | 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](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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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. 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