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title: A cow stands on two big toes on each foot, with two little dewclaws… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cow stands on two big toes on each foot, with two little dewclaws higher up, while a horse runs on just one toe per foot, its hoof a giant toenail. Who acts: cow, horse. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 1

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A cow stands on two big toes on each foot, with two little dewclaws higher up, while a horse runs on just one toe per foot, its hoof a giant toenail.

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**Who acts:** cow, horse · **What happens:** stand, run · **To what, where:** two big toes, hoof, one toe

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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 (cow, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.lesson:1
# text = A cow stands on two big toes on each foot, with two little dewclaws higher up, while a horse runs on just one toe per foot, its hoof a giant toenail.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dewclaws	dewclaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	higher	higher	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	per	per	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	toenail	toenail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stand** | present | a cow |  |  | two big toes on each foot |  | with two little dewclaws | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on toe=Location |
| 2 | **run** | present | a horse | horse's hoof |  | one toe per foot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory |

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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:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres.lesson:1`.

**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): no change. **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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