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title: Each of these animals is built for its own life: the goat's flat pup… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each of these animals is built for its own life: the goat's flat pupils watch the ground for wolves, the cow's long tongue grabs grass, and the rabbit's front teeth never stop growing. Who acts: flat pupils, long tongue, front teeth. A sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, ra
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# The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 1

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Each of these animals is built for its own life: the goat's flat pupils watch the ground for wolves, the cow's long tongue grabs grass, and the rabbit's front teeth never stop growing.

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**Who acts:** flat pupils, long tongue, front teeth · **What happens:** build, watch, grab, not stop, grow · **To what, where:** Each, ground, grass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 (flat pupils, long tongue, front teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:1
# text = Each of these animals is built for its own life: the goat's flat pupils watch the ground for wolves, the cow's long tongue grabs grass, and the rabbit's front teeth never stop growing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	grabs	grab	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
39	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	xcomp	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **build** | present · passive |  | Each |  |  |  | for its own life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for life=Asset |
| 2 | **watch** | present | the goat's flat pupils | the ground |  |  |  | for wolves | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Location for wolf=Theme |
| 3 | **grab** | present | the cow's long tongue | grass |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **stop** | present | the rabbit's front teeth |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund | the rabbit's front teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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