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title: Count teats and you can guess family sizes: a ewe has two teats and… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count teats and you can guess family sizes: a ewe has two teats and twins are most common, while a sow has about fourteen for her litter of eight to twelve piglets, and each piglet keeps its own favourite teat. Who acts: you, ewe, twins, sow. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomac
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 4

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Count teats and you can guess family sizes: a ewe has two teats and twins are most common, while a sow has about fourteen for her litter of eight to twelve piglets, and each piglet keeps its own favourite teat.

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**Who acts:** you, ewe, twins, sow, piglet · **What happens:** count, guess, have, be, keep · **To what, where:** teats, family sizes, two teats, fourteen, own favourite teat · **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 (you, ewe, twins, sow), 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:4
# text = Count teats and you can guess family sizes: a ewe has two teats and twins are most common, while a sow has about fourteen for her litter of eight to twelve piglets, and each piglet keeps its own favourite teat.
# 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
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
2	teats	teat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ewe	ewe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	teats	teat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	litter	litter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	_
34	piglets	piglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	piglet	piglet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
41	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	teat	teat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **count** | infinitive | you *not said here* | teats |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Theme |
| 2 | **guess** | can | you | family sizes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | a ewe | two teats |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | twins |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | a sow | fourteen |  |  |  | for sow's litter of eight piglets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourteen=Patient |
| 6 | **keep** | present | each piglet | ewe's own favourite teat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teat=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. **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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