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title: Goats have wide rectangular pupils that give a view almost all the w… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Goats have wide rectangular pupils that give a view almost all the way round, and when a goat lowers its head to eat, its eyes roll so the slit stays level with the ground. Who acts: Goats, wide rectangular pupils, goat, eyes. A sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the
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# Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 12

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Goats have wide rectangular pupils that give a view almost all the way round, and when a goat lowers its head to eat, its eyes roll so the slit stays level with the ground.

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**Who acts:** Goats, wide rectangular pupils, goat, eyes, slit · **What happens:** have, give, lower, eat, roll, stay · **To what, where:** wide rectangular pupils, view, head

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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 (Goats, wide rectangular pupils, goat, eyes), 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:12
# text = Goats have wide rectangular pupils that give a view almost all the way round, and when a goat lowers its head to eat, its eyes roll so the slit stays level with the ground.
# 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	rectangular	rectangular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound
20	lowers	lower	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	slit	slit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
33	level	level	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Goats | wide rectangular pupils |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | present | wide rectangular pupils | a view |  |  |  | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme |
| 3 | **lower** | present | a goat | way's head |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a goat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **roll** | present | head's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stay** | present | the slit |  |  |  |  | level *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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