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title: A lamb whose mother has no milk is fed by bottle and then follows pe… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A lamb whose mother has no milk is fed by bottle and then follows people around; a spare lamb can be given to a ewe that lost hers if it is rubbed with her lamb's smell. Who acts: mother, ewe, lamb. A sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» of the bi
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# A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 9

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A lamb whose mother has no milk is fed by bottle and then follows people around; a spare lamb can be given to a ewe that lost hers if it is rubbed with her lamb's smell.

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**Who acts:** mother, ewe, lamb · **What happens:** have, feed, follow around, give, lose, rub · **To what, where:** milk, lamb, people, spare lamb, ewe, mother

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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 (mother, ewe, lamb), 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:9
# text = A lamb whose mother has no milk is fed by bottle and then follows people around; a spare lamb can be given to a ewe that lost hers if it is rubbed with her lamb's smell.
# 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 ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	around	around	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	spare	spare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ewe	ewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | mother | no milk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 2 | **feed** | present · passive |  | a lamb |  |  |  | by bottle | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **follow around** | present |  | people |  |  | then | around *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | can · passive |  | a spare lamb | a ewe |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ewe=Recipient |
| 5 | **lose** | past | a ewe | mother |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Eventuality |
| 6 | **rub** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | muck |  |  |  | with mother's lamb's smell | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with smell=Theme |
| 7 | **smell** |  | mother's lamb |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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