--- title: Its secret is a stomach with four parts, the biggest of them a huge… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics description: Its secret is a stomach with four parts, the biggest of them a huge vat full of microbes, living things far too tiny to see, that break the grass down. Who acts: secret, microbes. A sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth/1/) [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/) / [Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cap…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth/) / 1 # Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 1 Its secret is a stomach with four parts, the biggest of them a huge vat full of microbes, living things far too tiny to see, that break the grass down. **Who acts:** secret, microbes · **What happens:** be, live, see, break down · **To what, where:** stomach, things, grass 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 (secret, microbes), 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:1 # text = Its secret is a stomach with four parts, the biggest of them a huge vat full of microbes, living things far too tiny to see, that break the grass down. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 11 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 vat vat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 17 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:xcomp 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 down down ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Grass's secret | a stomach and a biggest huge vat | | | | with four parts | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | Grass's secret *not said here* | things | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Grass's secret *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **break down** | present | microbes | the grass | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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