--- title: A heavy sheep with a thick fleece can roll onto its back and be unab… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics description: A heavy sheep with a thick fleece can roll onto its back and be unable to get up; this is called being cast, and a cast sheep can die, so farmers help it up. Who acts: heavy sheep, cast sheep, farmers. 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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 (heavy sheep, cast sheep, farmers), 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:7 # text = A heavy sheep with a thick fleece can roll onto its back and be unable to get up; this is called being cast, and a cast sheep can die, so farmers help it up. # 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 fleece fleece NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 onto onto ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | can | a heavy sheep with a thick fleece | | | fleece's back | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto back=Trajectory | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | a heavy sheep with a thick fleece *not said here* | | | | | unable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get up** | to-infinitive | a heavy sheep with a thick fleece *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cast** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **die** | can | a cast sheep | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **help up** | present | farmers | back | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | 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:7`. **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 ×3. **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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