--- title: Some farmers keep donkeys to guard sheep and goats, because donkeys… — Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules · tree and pragmatics description: Some farmers keep donkeys to guard sheep and goats, because donkeys dislike dogs and foxes and may chase or kick them away, though not every donkey does. Who acts: farmers, donkeys. 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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 (farmers, donkeys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:9 # text = Some farmers keep donkeys to guard sheep and goats, because donkeys dislike dogs and foxes and may chase or kick them away, though not every donkey does. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 donkeys donkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 dislike dislike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 though though SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 donkey donkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | some farmers | donkeys | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme | | 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive | some farmers *not said here* | donkeys *not said here* | sheep and goats | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Beneficiary | | 3 | **dislike** | present | donkeys | dogs and foxes | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | | 4 | **chase** | may | donkeys *not said here* | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **kick away** | infinitive | donkeys *not said here* | dogs *= dog* | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=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. 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