--- title: A sheep is a crowd animal: watch a flock at a gate and as soon as on… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics description: A sheep is a crowd animal: watch a flock at a gate and as soon as one sheep goes through, the rest pour after it, because for a prey animal the safest place is in the middle of the group. Who acts: sheep, one sheep, rest, safest place. 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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 (sheep, one sheep, rest, safest place), 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:1 # text = A sheep is a crowd animal: watch a flock at a gate and as soon as one sheep goes through, the rest pour after it, because for a prey animal the safest place is in the middle of the group. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advcl 21 through through ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 pour pour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a sheep | a crowd animal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **watch** | infinitive | | a flock | | a gate | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | | 3 | **go through** | present | one sheep | | | | | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pour** | present | the rest | | | | after gate | soon *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **is** | present | the safest place | | | the middle | | for a prey animal; of the group | tree rules | 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:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:1`. **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. **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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