---
title: In winter the cows live in big sheds, eating the hay and silage save… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics
description: In winter the cows live in big sheds, eating the hay and silage saved in summer, and the muck from the sheds goes back on the fields in spring. Who acts: cows, muck. A sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/6/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/) / 6

# A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 6

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In winter the cows live in big sheds, eating the hay and silage saved in summer, and the muck from the sheds goes back on the fields in spring.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** cows, muck · **What happens:** live, eat, save, go back · **To what, where:** big sheds, hay

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (cows, muck), 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:6
# text = In winter the cows live in big sheds, eating the hay and silage saved in summer, and the muck from the sheds goes back on the fields in spring.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sheds	shed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	silage	silage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	muck	muck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sheds	shed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the cows |  |  | big sheds | winter |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shed=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | the cows *not said here* | the hay and silage |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient |
| 3 | **save** | participle |  | the hay and silage *not said here* |  |  | summer |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go back** | present | the muck from the sheds |  |  |  | spring |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:6`.

**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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking,…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/4/)
- next →: [A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/7/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/)

