--- title: A cow makes milk only after having a calf, because, like all mammals… — Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth · tree and pragmatics description: A cow makes milk only after having a calf, because, like all mammals, mothers make milk for their babies; a dairy cow can give over twenty litres a day. Who acts: cow, mothers, dairy cow. 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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 (cow, mothers, dairy cow), 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:6 # text = A cow makes milk only after having a calf, because, like all mammals, mothers make milk for their babies; a dairy cow can give over twenty litres a day. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 19 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 dairy dairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 29 over over ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 30 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obl 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | a cow | milk | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Product | | 2 | **have** | gerund | a cow *not said here* | a calf | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | mothers | milk | | | | like all mammals; for mothers's babies | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent milk=Material for baby=Beneficiary | | 4 | **give over** | can | a dairy cow | twenty litres | | | day | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme | 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:6`. **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 ×2, 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. 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