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title: A goat is an explorer and a climber: its wild relatives live on clif… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A goat is an explorer and a climber: its wild relatives live on cliffs, so a farm goat will happily hop onto a wall, a shed or even a parked car. Who acts: goat, wild relatives, farm goat. A sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» of the biology course o
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# Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 2

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A goat is an explorer and a climber: its wild relatives live on cliffs, so a farm goat will happily hop onto a wall, a shed or even a parked car.

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**Who acts:** goat, wild relatives, farm goat · **What happens:** be, live, hop, park · **To what, where:** explorer, cliffs, wall

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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 (goat, wild relatives, farm goat), 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:2
# text = A goat is an explorer and a climber: its wild relatives live on cliffs, so a farm goat will happily hop onto a wall, a shed or even a parked car.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	explorer	explorer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	climber	climber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hop	hop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
24	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a goat | a explorer and a climber or a parked car |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | climber's wild relatives |  |  | cliffs |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cliff=Location |
| 3 | **hop** | future | a farm goat |  |  | a wall and a shed |  | happily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto wall=Trajectory |
| 4 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:2`.

**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, R7-rel-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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