--- title: Mother goats and their kids, baby goats, know each other's voices, a… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Mother goats and their kids, baby goats, know each other's voices, and a study reported that young goats' calls change to sound more like the group they live with, a little like an accent. Who acts: Mother goats, study, calls, goats. 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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 (Mother goats, study, calls, 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:13 # text = Mother goats and their kids, baby goats, know each other's voices, and a study reported that young goats' calls change to sound more like the group they live with, a little like an accent. # 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 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 baby baby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 12 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 14 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 ' 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 33 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | Mother goats and goats's kids and baby goats | each other voices | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **report** | past | a study | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **change** | present | young goats's calls | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sound** | to-infinitive | young goats's calls *not said here* | | | | | like the group | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **live** | present | goats *= goat* | the group *not said here* | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme group=Location | | 6 | **call** | | young goats | | | | | | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:13`. **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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