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title: Many goats have beards, both males and females; most sheep do not, a… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many goats have beards, both males and females; most sheep do not, and a goat's tail usually points up while a sheep's hangs down. Who acts: Many goats, most sheep, tail, sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» of the biology course of Mova's pr
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# Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 14

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Many goats have beards, both males and females; most sheep do not, and a goat's tail usually points up while a sheep's hangs down.

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**Who acts:** Many goats, most sheep, tail, sheep · **What happens:** have, not do, point up, hang down · **To what, where:** beards

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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 (Many goats, most sheep, tail, sheep), 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:14
# text = Many goats have beards, both males and females; most sheep do not, and a goat's tail usually points up while a sheep's hangs down.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc:preconj	_	_
7	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | Many goats | beards |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **do** | present | most sheep |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **point up** | present | a goat's tail |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hang down** | present | a sheep |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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