--- title: Let a cow lick your hand and you will see she has no top front teeth… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics description: Let a cow lick your hand and you will see she has no top front teeth at all, only a hard pad of gum: she wraps her tongue round the grass, pulls it against the pad and tears it. Who acts: you, cow. 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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 (you, cow), 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:2 # text = Let a cow lick your hand and you will see she has no top front teeth at all, only a hard pad of gum: she wraps her tongue round the grass, pulls it against the pad and tears it. # 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 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 lick lick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 14 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pad pad NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 gum gum NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wraps wrap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 round round ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 against against ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pad pad NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | a cow | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lick** | infinitive | a cow *not said here* | your hand | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source | | 3 | **see** | future | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | present | cow | no top front teeth | | all | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 5 | **wrap** | present | cow | cow's tongue | | | | round the grass | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 6 | **pull** | present | cow *not said here* | tongue | | | | against the pad | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **tear** | present | cow *not said here* | tongue | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme | 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:2`. **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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