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title: A cow has one stomach with four parts; microbes in the first part br… — Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat · tree and pragmatics
description: A cow has one stomach with four parts; microbes in the first part break down grass, and the cow brings it back up to chew again, which is called chewing the cud. Who acts: cow, microbes. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school
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# Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, sentence 11

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A cow has one stomach with four parts; microbes in the first part break down grass, and the cow brings it back up to chew again, which is called chewing the cud.

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**Who acts:** cow, microbes · **What happens:** have, break down, bring, chew, call · **To what, where:** one stomach, grass, cud · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, microbes), 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:11
# text = A cow has one stomach with four parts; microbes in the first part break down grass, and the cow brings it back up to chew again, which is called chewing the cud.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	chew	chew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
33	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cud	cud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | a cow | one stomach |  |  |  | with four parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient |
| 2 | **break down** | present | microbes in the first part | grass |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | present | the cow | grass |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **chew** | to-infinitive | the cow *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **chew** | gerund |  | the cud |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient |

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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. **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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