--- title: Sheep nibble with a split top lip and can graze grass shorter than c… — Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Sheep nibble with a split top lip and can graze grass shorter than cows can; sheep, goats and cows all chew the cud, bringing food back up to chew it again. Who acts: Sheep. A sentence of the lesson «Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth» of the biology course of Mova's primar --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Sheep and goats: wool, flocks, climbers and the tin-can myth, sentence 9 Sheep nibble with a split top lip and can graze grass shorter than cows can; sheep, goats and cows all chew the cud, bringing food back up to chew it again. **Who acts:** Sheep · **What happens:** nibble, split, graze, chew, bring back · **To what, where:** grass, cud, food 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), 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:9 # text = Sheep nibble with a split top lip and can graze grass shorter than cows can; sheep, goats and cows all chew the cud, bringing food back up to chew it again. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 nibble nibble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 6 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 graze graze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 parataxis _ _ 13 than than SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 17 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 22 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 chew chew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cud cud NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 up up ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 chew chew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nibble** | present | Sheep | | | | | with a split top lip | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **split** | participle | | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **graze** | can | Sheep *not said here* | grass | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Experiencer | | 4 | **chew** | present | sheep and goats and cows | the cud | | | | all *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient | | 5 | **bring back** | gerund | sheep and goats and cows *not said here* | food | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 6 | **chew** | to-infinitive | sheep and goats and cows *not said here* | food | | | again | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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