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title: In 2015 a runaway sheep in Australia named Chris was found with a fl… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2015 a runaway sheep in Australia named Chris was found with a fleece weighing about 40 kilograms. Who acts: fleece. A sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 11

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In 2015 a runaway sheep in Australia named Chris was found with a fleece weighing about 40 kilograms.

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**Who acts:** fleece · **What happens:** name, find, weigh · **To what, where:** runaway sheep, 2015, 40 kilograms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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 (fleece), 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:11
# text = In 2015 a runaway sheep in Australia named Chris was found with a fleece weighing about 40 kilograms.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2015	2015	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	runaway	runaway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	Chris	Chris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	weighing	weigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | a runaway sheep in Australia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | a runaway sheep in Australia |  | 2015 |  | with a fleece | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **weigh** | gerund | a fleece *not said here* | 40 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |

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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:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.lesson:11`.

**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): R6-punct-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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