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title: Cows are also more social and clever than people think: they have be… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics
description: Cows are also more social and clever than people think: they have best friends, learn routines and their names, and the bull charging the red cape is chasing the movement, not the colour. Who acts: Cows, people, bull. A sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» of the bio
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# Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 3

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Cows are also more social and clever than people think: they have best friends, learn routines and their names, and the bull charging the red cape is chasing the movement, not the colour.

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**Who acts:** Cows, people, bull · **What happens:** be, think, have, learn, charge, chase · **To what, where:** best friends, routines, red cape, movement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, people, bull), 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:3
# text = Cows are also more social and clever than people think: they have best friends, learn routines and their names, and the bull charging the red cape is chasing the movement, not the colour.
# 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 ×1
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	routines	routine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	charging	charge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Cows |  |  |  |  | social *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Cows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | people | best friends |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 5 | **learn** | present | people *not said here* | routines and people's names |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent routine=Topic |
| 6 | **charge** | gerund | the bull *not said here* | the red cape |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cape=Theme |
| 7 | **chase** | present · progressive | the bull | the movement |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme |
| 8 | **name** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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 ×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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