--- title: Goats are curious browsers that nibble a bit of everything, but they… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics description: Goats are curious browsers that nibble a bit of everything, but they do not really eat tin cans; they nibble paper labels and test things with their lips. Who acts: Goats, curious browsers, fur. A sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/) / 4 # The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 4 Goats are curious browsers that nibble a bit of everything, but they do not really eat tin cans; they nibble paper labels and test things with their lips. **Who acts:** Goats, curious browsers, fur · **What happens:** be, nibble, not eat, test · **To what, where:** curious browsers, bit, tin cans, paper labels 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 (Goats, curious browsers, fur), 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:4 # text = Goats are curious browsers that nibble a bit of everything, but they do not really eat tin cans; they nibble paper labels and test things with their lips. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 browsers browser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 nibble nibble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 18 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 cans can NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 nibble nibble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 labels label NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 test test VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Goats | curious browsers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **nibble** | present | curious browsers | a bit of everything | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | | 3 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | fur | tin cans | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent can=Patient | | 4 | **nibble** | present | fur | paper labels and things | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Patient | | 5 | **test** | present | fur *not said here* | | | | | with fur's lips | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:4`. **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 ×2, 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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