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title: Sheep and goats are cousins that people have kept for about ten thou… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sheep and goats are cousins that people have kept for about ten thousand years, but they live very different lives. Who acts: Sheep, people. A sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 0

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Sheep and goats are cousins that people have kept for about ten thousand years, but they live very different lives.

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**Who acts:** Sheep, people · **What happens:** be, keep, live · **To what, where:** cousins, different lives

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can 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 (Sheep, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:0
# text = Sheep and goats are cousins that people have kept for about ten thousand years, but they live very different lives.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-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	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Sheep and goats | cousins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present · perfect | people | cousins |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | present | people | different lives |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |

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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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