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title: Sheepdog trials are real competitions where dog and shepherd move sh… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Sheepdog trials are real competitions where dog and shepherd move sheep through gates and into a pen. Who acts: Sheepdog trials, dog. 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 cl
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# Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 14

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Sheepdog trials are real competitions where dog and shepherd move sheep through gates and into a pen.

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**Who acts:** Sheepdog trials, dog · **What happens:** be, move · **To what, where:** real competitions, sheep, gates

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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 (Sheepdog trials, dog), 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:14
# text = Sheepdog trials are real competitions where dog and shepherd move sheep through gates and into a pen.
# 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): no change
1	Sheepdog	sheepdog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	competitions	competition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Sheepdog trials | real competitions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | present | dog and shepherd | sheep |  | gates and a pen |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme through gate=Trajectory |

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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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:14`.

**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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