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title: Farm sheep grow wool all the time and must be shorn every year, beca… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Farm sheep grow wool all the time and must be shorn every year, because people bred them to keep their wool; a sheep called Shrek in New Zealand escaped shearing for six years and grew 27 kilograms of wool. Who acts: Farm sheep, people, sheep. A sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep
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# The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 6

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Farm sheep grow wool all the time and must be shorn every year, because people bred them to keep their wool; a sheep called Shrek in New Zealand escaped shearing for six years and grew 27 kilograms of wool.

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**Who acts:** Farm sheep, people, sheep · **What happens:** grow, shorn, breed, keep, call, escape · **To what, where:** wool, sheep, 27 kilograms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Farm sheep, people, sheep), 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:6
# text = Farm sheep grow wool all the time and must be shorn every year, because people bred them to keep their wool; a sheep called Shrek in New Zealand escaped shearing for six years and grew 27 kilograms of wool.
# 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	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	shorn	shorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bred	breed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	Shrek	Shrek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
30	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	shearing	shear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
38	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | Farm sheep | wool |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wool=Theme |
| 2 | **shorn** | must · passive | Farm sheep *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **breed** | past | people | sheep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | sheep's wool |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | participle |  | a sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **escape** | past | a sheep |  |  |  | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **shear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **grow** | past | a sheep *not said here* | 27 kilograms of wool |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kilogram=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): 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.

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