--- title: A girl in Colorado climbed into a field to stroke a calf; the mother… — Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Colorado climbed into a field to stroke a calf; the mother cow charged, knocked her down and she was badly bruised before a farmer pulled her out. Who acts: girl, mother cow, farmer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, mother cow, farmer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.lesson:16 # text = A girl in Colorado climbed into a field to stroke a calf; the mother cow charged, knocked her down and she was badly bruised before a farmer pulled her out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Colorado Colorado PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 stroke stroke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 charged charge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 bruised bruise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 27 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | past | a girl in Colorado | | | a field | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Destination | | 2 | **stroke** | to-infinitive | a girl in Colorado *not said here* | a calf | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Experiencer | | 3 | **charge** | past | the mother cow | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **knock down** | past | the mother cow *not said here* | cow | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 5 | **bruise** | past · passive | | girl | | | | badly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **pull out** | past | a farmer | cow | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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