--- title: Books sometimes say a cow has four stomachs, but it really has one s… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics description: Books sometimes say a cow has four stomachs, but it really has one stomach with four parts, and the biggest part is full of microbes that break down tough grass. Who acts: Books, cow, cud, biggest part. 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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 (Books, cow, cud, biggest part), 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:5 # text = Books sometimes say a cow has four stomachs, but it really has one stomach with four parts, and the biggest part is full of microbes that break down tough grass. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 say say 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 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 stomachs stomach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 really really ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 down down ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Books | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | a cow | four stomachs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | cud | one stomach | | | | with four parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | the biggest part | | | | | of microbes; full *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **break down** | present | microbes | tough grass | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | 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:5`. **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, 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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