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title: Cows, sheep, goats and pigs walk on two toes, called cloven hooves,… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cows, sheep, goats and pigs walk on two toes, called cloven hooves, with two smaller dewclaws higher up at the back, while a horse walks on one toe on each foot. Who acts: Cows, two toes, two smaller dewclaws, horse. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and
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# Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres, sentence 8

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Cows, sheep, goats and pigs walk on two toes, called cloven hooves, with two smaller dewclaws higher up at the back, while a horse walks on one toe on each foot.

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**Who acts:** Cows, two toes, two smaller dewclaws, horse · **What happens:** walk, call, higher up · **To what, where:** two toes, cloven hooves, back, one toe · **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 (Cows, two toes, two smaller dewclaws, horse), 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:8
# text = Cows, sheep, goats and pigs walk on two toes, called cloven hooves, with two smaller dewclaws higher up at the back, while a horse walks on one toe on each foot.
# 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 ×2
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	cloven	cloven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hooves	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	dewclaws	dewclaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	higher	higher	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **walk** | present | Cows and sheep and goats and pigs |  |  | two toes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call** | participle | two toes *not said here* | cloven hooves |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hoof=Recipient |
| 3 | **higher up** | present | two smaller dewclaws |  |  | the back |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | present | a horse |  |  | one toe |  | on each foot | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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