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title: A cow has no top front teeth, only a hard pad, so it wraps its long… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics
description: A cow has no top front teeth, only a hard pad, so it wraps its long rough tongue around grass to pull it, and that tongue is long enough to lick inside its own nostrils. Who acts: cow, pad, tongue. A sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» of the biology course of Mova'
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# Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 14

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A cow has no top front teeth, only a hard pad, so it wraps its long rough tongue around grass to pull it, and that tongue is long enough to lick inside its own nostrils.

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**Who acts:** cow, pad, tongue · **What happens:** have, wrap, pull, be, lick · **To what, where:** top front teeth, long rough tongue, grass, tongue, own nostrils

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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 (cow, pad, tongue), 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:14
# text = A cow has no top front teeth, only a hard pad, so it wraps its long rough tongue around grass to pull it, and that tongue is long enough to lick inside its own nostrils.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
5	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pad	pad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wraps	wrap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
35	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | a cow | no top front teeth and a hard pad |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **wrap** | present | pad | pad's long rough tongue |  | grass |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme around grass=Destination |
| 3 | **pull** | to-infinitive | pad *not said here* | tongue |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | that tongue |  |  |  |  | enough, long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lick** | to-infinitive | that tongue *not said here* |  |  | pad's own nostrils |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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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**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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