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title: A ewe has two teats, which is why twins are most common, and a sheep… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A ewe has two teats, which is why twins are most common, and a sheep's fleece weighs a few kilograms each year. Who acts: ewe, two teats, fleece. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 12

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A ewe has two teats, which is why twins are most common, and a sheep's fleece weighs a few kilograms each year.

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**Who acts:** ewe, two teats, fleece · **What happens:** have, be, weigh · **To what, where:** two teats, few kilograms

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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 (ewe, two teats, fleece), 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:12
# text = A ewe has two teats, which is why twins are most common, and a sheep's fleece weighs a few kilograms each year.
# 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	ewe	ewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	teats	teat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a ewe | two teats |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | two teats |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **weigh** | present | a sheep's fleece | a few kilograms |  |  | year |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |

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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): 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.

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