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title: In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test thin… — Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat · tree and pragmatics
description: In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans. Who acts: goats. 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 e
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# Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, sentence 17

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In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans.

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**Who acts:** goats · **What happens:** climb, eat, not eat · **To what, where:** argan trees, Morocco, fruit, tin cans

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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 (goats), 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:17
# text = In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Morocco	Morocco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
5	argan	argan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	really	really	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
23	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **climb** | present | goats | argan trees |  | Morocco |  | goats and test things *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | goats *not said here* | the fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **eat** | can | goats *not said here* | tin cans |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=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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**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:17`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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