--- title: Shepherds use whistles and calls for left, right, stop and come in,… — Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs · tree and pragmatics description: Shepherds use whistles and calls for left, right, stop and come in, because a whistle carries farther than a voice over hills and wind; «come by» means clockwise round the flock and «away to me» anticlockwise. Who acts: Shepherds, whistle. 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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 (Shepherds, whistle), 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:9 # text = Shepherds use whistles and calls for left, right, stop and come in, because a whistle carries farther than a voice over hills and wind; «come by» means clockwise round the flock and «away to me» anticlockwise. # 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): R1-cc-next ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Shepherds shepherd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 whistles whistle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 right right INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 in in ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 20 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc 27 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 nsubj _ _ 31 by by ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 34 clockwise clockwise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 35 round round ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 away away ADV RB _ 30 conj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 44 anticlockwise anticlockwise ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Shepherds | whistles and calls for left | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | | 2 | **stop** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **come in** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **carry** | present | a whistle | | | | | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come by** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | round the flock; anticlockwise, clockwise *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | 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. 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