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title: Sheep see about 300 degrees around them, with a small blind gap righ… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics
description: Sheep see about 300 degrees around them, with a small blind gap right behind them, and see less well right in front of their noses, so a dog coming straight from behind may surprise them. Who acts: Sheep, dog. A sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» of the biology course of M
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# Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 16

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Sheep see about 300 degrees around them, with a small blind gap right behind them, and see less well right in front of their noses, so a dog coming straight from behind may surprise them.

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**Who acts:** Sheep, dog · **What happens:** see about, see, come, surprise · **To what, where:** 300 degrees, front, sheep

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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 (Sheep, 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:16
# text = Sheep see about 300 degrees around them, with a small blind gap right behind them, and see less well right in front of their noses, so a dog coming straight from behind may surprise them.
# 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
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
14	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	right	right	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	32	obl	_	_
36	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	surprise	surprise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see about** | present | Sheep | 300 degrees |  |  |  | around degrees *= degree*; with a small blind gap behind degrees | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer degree=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | Sheep *not said here* |  |  | front of sheep's noses |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | a dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from behind=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **surprise** | may | a dog | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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:16`.

**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. **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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