--- title: Scared sheep bunch tightly together, because the middle of a crowd i… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics description: Scared sheep bunch tightly together, because the middle of a crowd is safer, and that is what lets one dog move hundreds of sheep. Who acts: Scared sheep, middle, that. 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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 (Scared sheep, middle, that), 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:10 # text = Scared sheep bunch tightly together, because the middle of a crowd is safer, and that is what lets one dog move hundreds of sheep. # 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 ×3 1 Scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bunch bunch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 together together ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 conj _ _ 20 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nummod 22 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **bunch** | present | Scared sheep | | | | | together *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the middle of a crowd | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **let** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **move** | infinitive | | hundreds of sheep | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | 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:10`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/9/) - next →: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/)