--- title: Goats do not eat tin cans; they are curious and test things with the… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Goats do not eat tin cans; they are curious and test things with their lips, so they nibble paper, labels and clothes. Who acts: Goats. 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 and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climber…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/) / 11 # Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 11 Goats do not eat tin cans; they are curious and test things with their lips, so they nibble paper, labels and clothes. **Who acts:** Goats · **What happens:** not eat, be, test, nibble · **To what, where:** tin cans, things, paper 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 (Goats), 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:11 # text = Goats do not eat tin cans; they are curious and test things with their lips, so they nibble paper, labels and clothes. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cans can NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 test test VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 nibble nibble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 23 labels label NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | Goats | tin cans | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | goats *= goat* | | | | | curious *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **test** | present | goats *= goat* *not said here* | things | | | | with goats's lips | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 4 | **nibble** | present | goats *= goat* | paper and labels and clothes | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=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:211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climber…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/10/) - next →: [Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climber…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/)