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title: A study found sheep can recognise up to about 50 sheep faces and rem… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A study found sheep can recognise up to about 50 sheep faces and remember them for years. Who acts: study, sheep. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 13

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A study found sheep can recognise up to about 50 sheep faces and remember them for years.

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**Who acts:** study, sheep · **What happens:** find, recognise up, remember · **To what, where:** 50 sheep faces, sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (study, sheep), 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:13
# text = A study found sheep can recognise up to about 50 sheep faces and remember them for years.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	recognise	recognise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
12	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	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 | **find** | past | a study |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **recognise up** | can | sheep | 50 sheep faces |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 3 | **remember** | infinitive | sheep *not said here* | sheep |  |  | year |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=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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**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:13`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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