--- title: Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round t… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round the flock, and three hundred sheep move as one. Who acts: you, shepherd, dog, hundred 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 --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 3 Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round the flock, and three hundred sheep move as one. **Who acts:** you, shepherd, dog, hundred sheep · **What happens:** picture, whistle, swing, move · **To what, where:** hillside, flock 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 (you, shepherd, dog, hundred 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:3 # text = Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round the flock, and three hundred sheep move as one. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hillside hillside NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 whistles whistle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 swings swing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 left leave ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 round round ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 compound _ _ 19 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a hillside | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hillside=Theme | | 2 | **whistle** | present | a shepherd | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swing** | present | the dog | | | the flock | | leave *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round flock=Trajectory | | 4 | **move** | present | hundred sheep | | | | | as one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/2/) - next →: [Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/)