--- title: Farm sheep were bred to grow wool that keeps growing, while wild she… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Farm sheep were bred to grow wool that keeps growing, while wild sheep shed their coats, so farm sheep must be shorn, their wool cut off, usually once a year in spring or early summer. Who acts: wool, wild sheep, farm sheep. 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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 (wool, wild sheep, farm 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:4 # text = Farm sheep were bred to grow wool that keeps growing, while wild sheep shed their coats, so farm sheep must be shorn, their wool cut off, usually once a year in spring or early summer. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 7 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 shed shed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:aux:pass 24 shorn shear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 advmod _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breed** | past · passive | | Farm sheep | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | | wool | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | wool | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | gerund | wool *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **shed** | past | wild sheep | Sheep's coats | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Source | | 6 | **is** | must | farm sheep | | | | | shear *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **cut off** | participle | | Sheep's wool *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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