--- title: Sheep are sheared in early summer, a good shearer taking about two m… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics description: Sheep are sheared in early summer, a good shearer taking about two minutes per sheep, because most sheep are bred to keep growing wool and would get too hot and dirty. Who acts: good shearer. 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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 (good shearer), 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:10 # text = Sheep are sheared in early summer, a good shearer taking about two minutes per sheep, because most sheep are bred to keep growing wool and would get too hot and dirty. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 sheared shear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shearer shearer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:appos 11 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl 15 per per ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 bred breed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 25 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 26 wool wool NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 30 too too ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shear** | present · passive | | Sheep | | | summer | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **take** | gerund | a good shearer | | | | minute | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **breed** | present · passive | | most sheep | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | gerund | | wool | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme | | 6 | **get** | would | | | | | | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:10`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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