--- title: Cows in a field often face the same way, turning their backs to wind… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics description: Cows in a field often face the same way, turning their backs to wind and rain or lining up with the sun; some scientists reported they tend to line up north to south, but others could not find this, so it is still argued. Who acts: Cows, scientists, others. 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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 (Cows, scientists, others), 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:11 # text = Cows in a field often face the same way, turning their backs to wind and rain or lining up with the sun; some scientists reported they tend to line up north to south, but others could not find this, so it is still argued. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 face face VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 lining line VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 tend tend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 line line VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 north north ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 35 south south ADV RB _ 33 advcl _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 42 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 obj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 47 still still ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 ccomp _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **face** | present | Cows in a field | the same way | | | | often *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination | | 2 | **turn** | gerund | Cows in a field *not said here* | cattle's backs | | wind and rain | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme to wind=Trajectory | | 3 | **line up** | gerund | Cows in a field *not said here* | | | | | with the sun | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sun=Theme | | 4 | **report** | past | some scientists | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **tend** | present | scientists *= scientist* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **line up** | to-infinitive | scientists *= scientist* *not said here* | | | | | north *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **find** | could | others | this | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Attribute clause=Theme | | 8 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | way | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | 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:11`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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