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title: A sheep called Chris was found in Australia in 2015 after years lost… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A sheep called Chris was found in Australia in 2015 after years lost in the bush, carrying over forty kilograms of wool. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 5

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A sheep called Chris was found in Australia in 2015 after years lost in the bush, carrying over forty kilograms of wool.

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**What happens:** call, find, lose, carry · **To what, where:** sheep, Australia, years, bush, forty kilograms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:5
# text = A sheep called Chris was found in Australia in 2015 after years lost in the bush, carrying over forty kilograms of wool.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	Chris	Chris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **call** | participle |  | a sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | a sheep |  | Australia | year | in 2015 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **lose** | participle |  | years *not said here* |  | the bush |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in bush=Eventuality |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund |  | forty kilograms of wool |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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 ×2. **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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