--- title: Farm sheep grow wool that never stops growing, so every spring a she… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Farm sheep grow wool that never stops growing, so every spring a shearer gives them a haircut, and a goat that seems to eat a tin can is really only nibbling the paper label to find out what it is. Who acts: Farm sheep, wool, shearer, goat. 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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 (Farm sheep, wool, shearer, 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:3 # text = Farm sheep grow wool that never stops growing, so every spring a shearer gives them a haircut, and a goat that seems to eat a tin can is really only nibbling the paper label to find out what it is. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 shearer shearer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 haircut haircut NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 can can NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 really really ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 nibbling nibble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 ccomp _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Farm sheep | wool | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme | | 2 | **not** **stop** | present | wool | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | wool *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | present | a shearer | a haircut | Sheep | | spring | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient haircut=Theme | | 5 | **seem** | present | a goat | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a goat *not said here* | a tin can | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient | | 7 | **nibble** | present · progressive | a goat | the paper label | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient | | 8 | **find out** | to-infinitive | a goat *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | shearer | | | | | | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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