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title: A cow gives milk because, like every mammal mother, she makes it for… — Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat · tree and pragmatics
description: A cow gives milk because, like every mammal mother, she makes it for her calf. Who acts: cow. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, sentence 1

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A cow gives milk because, like every mammal mother, she makes it for her calf.

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**Who acts:** cow · **What happens:** give, make · **To what, where:** milk, jumper

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» 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 (cow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:1
# text = A cow gives milk because, like every mammal mother, she makes it for her calf.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | a cow | milk |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | cow | jumper |  |  |  | like every mammal mother; for cow's calf | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for calf=Beneficiary |

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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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**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:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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