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title: Lambs skip and play, which builds muscles and friendships, and a ewe… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lambs skip and play, which builds muscles and friendships, and a ewe, a mother sheep, and her lamb find each other in a noisy field by their calls. Who acts: Lambs, ewe, Sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» of the biology course of Mova's pri
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# Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 8

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Lambs skip and play, which builds muscles and friendships, and a ewe, a mother sheep, and her lamb find each other in a noisy field by their calls.

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**Who acts:** Lambs, ewe, Sheep · **What happens:** skip, play, build, find, call · **To what, where:** muscles, each, noisy field · **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: who acts (Lambs, ewe, 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:8
# text = Lambs skip and play, which builds muscles and friendships, and a ewe, a mother sheep, and her lamb find each other in a noisy field by their calls.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	skip	skip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ewe	ewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
24	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	23	obj	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	fixed	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | present | Lambs |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | present | Lambs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | present |  | muscles and friendships |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset muscle=Product |
| 4 | **find** | present | a ewe | each |  | a noisy field |  | by Sheep's calls | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic |
| 5 | **call** |  | Sheep |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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