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title: Cows with calves can be very protective and can trample people. — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics
description: Cows with calves can be very protective and can trample people. Who acts: Cows. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Farm animals and horses, sentence 19

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Cows with calves can be very protective and can trample people.

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**Who acts:** Cows · **What happens:** be, trample · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday 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 (Cows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:028-farm-animals-and-horses.lesson:19
# text = Cows with calves can be very protective and can trample people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 028-farm-animals-and-horses.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	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	protective	protective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	trample	trample	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | can | Cows with calves |  |  |  |  | protective *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trample** | can | Cows with calves *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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

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