--- title: Calm, slow handling keeps sheep less stressed; stressed sheep scatte… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics description: Calm, slow handling keeps sheep less stressed; stressed sheep scatter and can hurt themselves. Who acts: Calm slow handling, sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/11/) [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/) / [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/) / 11 # Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 11 Calm, slow handling keeps sheep less stressed; stressed sheep scatter and can hurt themselves. **Who acts:** Calm slow handling, sheep · **What happens:** keep, stress, scatter, hurt · **To what, where:** sheep This is a sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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 (Calm slow handling, sheep), 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:11 # text = Calm, slow handling keeps sheep less stressed; stressed sheep scatter and can hurt themselves. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 4 handling handling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 5 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 8 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 12 scatter scatter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Calm slow handling | sheep | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stress** | participle | sheep *not said here* | | | | | less *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **stress** | participle | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **scatter** | present | | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hurt** | can | | sheep | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient | 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:11`. **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 ×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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