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title: A cow wraps its long rough tongue round grass because it has no top… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cow wraps its long rough tongue round grass because it has no top front teeth, only a hard pad. Who acts: cow, food. A sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 12

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A cow wraps its long rough tongue round grass because it has no top front teeth, only a hard pad.

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**Who acts:** cow, food · **What happens:** wrap, have · **To what, where:** long rough tongue, top front teeth

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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 (cow, food), 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:12
# text = A cow wraps its long rough tongue round grass because it has no top front teeth, only a hard pad.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wraps	wrap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pad	pad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap** | present | a cow | food's long rough tongue |  |  |  | round grass | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | food | no top front teeth and a hard pad |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

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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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**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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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