--- title: In early summer the sheep are sheared, and in June the grass is cut,… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics description: In early summer the sheep are sheared, and in June the grass is cut, dried in the sun, turned and baled as hay, or wrapped airtight in black plastic so it pickles into silage. Who acts: grass. 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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 (grass), 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:3 # text = In early summer the sheep are sheared, and in June the grass is cut, dried in the sun, turned and baled as hay, or wrapped airtight in black plastic so it pickles into silage. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 sheared shear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 June June PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 24 baled bale VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 29 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 30 airtight airtight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 so so SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 pickles pickle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 silage silage NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **shear** | present · passive | | the sheep | | | summer | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **cut** | present · passive | | the grass | | | june | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **dry** | participle | | | | the sun | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **turn** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bale** | participle | | | | | | as hay | tree rules | | 6 | **wrap** | participle | | | | | | airtight *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **pickle** | present | grass | | | | | into silage *result* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into silage=Result | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3. **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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