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title: A dairy goat gives about two to four litres of milk a day; goats do… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A dairy goat gives about two to four litres of milk a day; goats do not eat tin cans, they just nibble the labels, and their rectangular pupils help them watch all around for danger. Who acts: dairy goat, goats, rectangular pupils. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves,
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 10

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A dairy goat gives about two to four litres of milk a day; goats do not eat tin cans, they just nibble the labels, and their rectangular pupils help them watch all around for danger.

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**Who acts:** dairy goat, goats, rectangular pupils · **What happens:** give, not eat, nibble, help, watch · **To what, where:** two litres, tin cans, labels, goats

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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 (dairy goat, goats, rectangular pupils), 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:10
# text = A dairy goat gives about two to four litres of milk a day; goats do not eat tin cans, they just nibble the labels, and their rectangular pupils help them watch all around for danger.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
19	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cans	can	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	nibble	nibble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	labels	label	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	rectangular	rectangular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	around	around	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **give** | present | a dairy goat | two litres of milk |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | goats | tin cans |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient |
| 3 | **nibble** | present | goats *= goat* | the labels |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | goats's rectangular pupils | goats *= goat* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **watch** | infinitive | goats *= goat* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for danger; around *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for danger=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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