--- title: Farm vets visit farms to check herds of cows, sheep and pigs. — The vet · tree and pragmatics description: Farm vets visit farms to check herds of cows, sheep and pigs. Who acts: Farm vets. A sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/13/) [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/) / [The vet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/) / 13 # The vet, sentence 13 Farm vets visit farms to check herds of cows, sheep and pigs. **Who acts:** Farm vets · **What happens:** visit, check · **To what, where:** farms, herds This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» 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 (Farm vets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:13 # text = Farm vets visit farms to check herds of cows, sheep and pigs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 227-the-vet.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 1 Farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 vets vet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 visit visit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 herds herd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | present | Farm vets | farms | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Co-Agent | | 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | Farm vets *not said here* | herds of cows and sheep and pigs | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=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:227-the-vet.lesson:13`. **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. **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: [The vet, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/12/) - next →: [The vet, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/)