--- title: Cows form friendships, and studies found they are calmer with a best… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics description: Cows form friendships, and studies found they are calmer with a best friend nearby; calves kept with their mothers learn better social skills. Who acts: Cows, studies, calves. A sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 12 Cows form friendships, and studies found they are calmer with a best friend nearby; calves kept with their mothers learn better social skills. **Who acts:** Cows, studies, calves · **What happens:** form, find, be, keep, learn · **To what, where:** friendships, mothers, better social skills · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Cows, studies, calves), 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:12 # text = Cows form friendships, and studies found they are calmer with a best friend nearby; calves kept with their mothers learn better social skills. # 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 Cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 friendships friendship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 calmer calm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 ccomp _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 calves calf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 18 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 24 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 skills skill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 . . 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 | **form** | present | Cows | friendships | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friendship=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | studies | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | studies *= study* | | | | | with a best friend; calm *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | participle | calves *not said here* | studies's mothers | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **learn** | present | calves | better social skills | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=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:12`. **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. 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