--- title: In late winter and spring the farmer stays up all night in the lambi… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics description: In late winter and spring the farmer stays up all night in the lambing shed, because ewes often have twins and some lambs get stuck or are born weak. Who acts: farmer, ewes, lambs. 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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 (farmer, ewes, lambs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.lesson:1 # text = In late winter and spring the farmer stays up all night in the lambing shed, because ewes often have twins and some lambs get stuck or are born weak. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 up up ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 lambing lamb NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 15 shed shed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 ewes ewe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 21 twins twin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 lambs lamb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:xcomp 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 30 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay up** | present | the farmer | | | the lambing shed | night; winter | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme night=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | ewes | twins | | | | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Patient | | 3 | **get** | present | some lambs | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **bear** | present · passive | ewes *not said here* | | | | | weak *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | 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:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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