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title: Cows learn routines and their names, and on farms with milking robot… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics
description: Cows learn routines and their names, and on farms with milking robots, cows walk in by themselves when they choose to be milked. Who acts: Cows, routines. 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 a
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# Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 13

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Cows learn routines and their names, and on farms with milking robots, cows walk in by themselves when they choose to be milked.

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**Who acts:** Cows, routines · **What happens:** learn, walk in, choose, milk, name · **To what, where:** routines, farms

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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 (Cows, routines), 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:13
# text = Cows learn routines and their names, and on farms with milking robots, cows walk in by themselves when they choose to be milked.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	routines	routine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	milking	milking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	milked	milk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present | Cows | routines and routines's names |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent routine=Topic |
| 2 | **walk in** | present | cows |  |  | farms with milking robots |  | by routines *= routine* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Trajectory |
| 3 | **choose** | present | routines *= routine* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **milk** | to-infinitive · passive | routines *= routine* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **name** |  | routines *= routine* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:13`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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