--- title: Cows give milk after they have had a calf, because mammals make milk… — Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat · tree and pragmatics description: Cows give milk after they have had a calf, because mammals make milk for their babies; a dairy cow gives about 25 to 30 litres a day. Who acts: Cows, milk, mammals, dairy cow. 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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 (Cows, milk, mammals, dairy 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:7 # text = Cows give milk after they have had a calf, because mammals make milk for their babies; a dairy cow gives about 25 to 30 litres a day. # 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 ×1 1 Cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 14 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 dairy dairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 27 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Cows | milk | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present · perfect | milk | a calf | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | mammals | milk | | | | for milk's babies | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent milk=Material for baby=Beneficiary | | 4 | **give about** | present | a dairy cow | 25 litres | | | day | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=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:287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat.lesson:7`. **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: [Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/6/) - next →: [Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/)