--- title: Sheep stay together and follow each other because a flock is safer f… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Sheep stay together and follow each other because a flock is safer from predators, and they are not stupid: sheep can remember dozens of faces for years. Who acts: Sheep, flock. A sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» of the biology course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climber…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/211-sheep-and-goats-wool-flocks-climbers-and-the-tin-can-myth/) / 6 # Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 6 Sheep stay together and follow each other because a flock is safer from predators, and they are not stupid: sheep can remember dozens of faces for years. **Who acts:** Sheep, flock · **What happens:** stay together, follow, be, not be, remember · **To what, where:** each, predators, dozens 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 (Sheep, flock), 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:6 # text = Sheep stay together and follow each other because a flock is safer from predators, and they are not stupid: sheep can remember dozens of faces for years. # 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): no change 1 Sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 5 obj _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 advcl _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 stupid stupid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 parataxis _ _ 25 dozens dozen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay together** | present | Sheep | | | | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | present | Sheep *not said here* | each | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a flock | | | predators | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | Sheep | | | | | stupid *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **remember** | can | sheep | dozens of faces | | | year | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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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