--- title: Many cow breeds are brown, red or black; only some dairy breeds such… — Ducks, geese and farm myths · tree and pragmatics description: Many cow breeds are brown, red or black; only some dairy breeds such as the Holstein are black and white, and each cow's pattern is unique like a fingerprint. Who acts: Many cow breeds, dairy breeds, pattern, cow. 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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 (Many cow breeds, dairy breeds, pattern, cow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:12 # text = Many cow breeds are brown, red or black; only some dairy breeds such as the Holstein are black and white, and each cow's pattern is unique like a fingerprint. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 breeds breed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 13 dairy dairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 breeds breed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 18 case _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Holstein Holstein PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 unique unique ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 fingerprint fingerprint NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Many cow breeds | | | | | brown *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Many cow breeds *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Many cow breeds *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | some dairy breeds such the Holstein | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | some dairy breeds such the Holstein *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | each cow's pattern | | | | | like a fingerprint; unique *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **pattern** | | each cow | | | | | | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths.lesson:12`. **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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Ducks, geese and farm myths, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/11/) - next →: [Ducks, geese and farm myths, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/213-ducks-geese-and-farm-myths/)