--- title: A cow can live about 20 years, a horse about 25 to 30, a sheep about… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics description: A cow can live about 20 years, a horse about 25 to 30, a sheep about 10 to 12, a hen about 8 and a goat about 15, but most farm animals are sold or slaughtered long before they are old. Who acts: cow, animals. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cow, animals), 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:17 # text = A cow can live about 20 years, a horse about 25 to 30, a sheep about 10 to 12, a hen about 8 and a goat about 15, but most farm animals are sold or slaughtered long before they are old. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sheep sheep NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 35 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 36 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 slaughtered slaughter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 conj _ _ 41 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 42 before before SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 advcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | can | a cow | a horse 25 to 30 | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sell** | present · passive | | most farm animals | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **slaughter** | participle | | | | | | long *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | animals *= animal* | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:17`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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