--- title: A cow chews grass twice, a pig rolls in mud to keep cool, and a shee… — Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat · tree and pragmatics description: A cow chews grass twice, a pig rolls in mud to keep cool, and a sheepdog moves sheep the way a wolf would, because sheep bunch together for safety. Who acts: cow, pig, sheepdog, sheep. 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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 (cow, pig, sheepdog, sheep), 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:4 # text = A cow chews grass twice, a pig rolls in mud to keep cool, and a sheepdog moves sheep the way a wolf would, because sheep bunch together for safety. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 chews chew VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 14 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sheepdog sheepdog NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 20 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 bunch bunch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 30 together together ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **chew** | present | a cow | grass | | | | twice *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 2 | **roll** | present | a pig | | | mud | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory | | 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a pig *not said here* | | | | | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **move** | present | a sheepdog | sheep | | | | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme sheep=Result | | 5 | **bunch together** | present | sheep | | | | | for safety; together *property* | tree rules | 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:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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. 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