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title: Grass is so tough that people cannot get any goodness from it at all… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics
description: Grass is so tough that people cannot get any goodness from it at all, yet a cow turns it into milk and meat. Who acts: Grass, people, cow. A sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 0

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Grass is so tough that people cannot get any goodness from it at all, yet a cow turns it into milk and meat.

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**Who acts:** Grass, people, cow · **What happens:** be, not get, turn · **To what, where:** goodness, Grass, milk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» 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 (Grass, people, cow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.lesson:0
# text = Grass is so tough that people cannot get any goodness from it at all, yet a cow turns it into milk and meat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.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	Grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Grass |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **get** | can | people | any goodness |  | Grass |  | at all | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent goodness=Theme from it=Source at all=Asset |
| 3 | **turn** | present | a cow | Grass |  | milk and meat |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into milk=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:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.lesson:0`.

**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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