--- title: Cows with young calves can be very protective; walkers in fields sho… — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics description: Cows with young calves can be very protective; walkers in fields should keep away from calves, close gates behind them and never walk between a cow and her calf. Who acts: Cows, walkers. 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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 (Cows, walkers), 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:3 # text = Cows with young calves can be very protective; walkers in fields should keep away from calves, close gates behind them and never walk between a cow and her calf. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 calves calf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 protective protective ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 walkers walker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 calves calf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 21 behind behind ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 between between ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** | can | Cows with young calves | | | | | protective *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep away** | should | walkers in fields | close gates | | | | behind Cows *= cow*; away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gate=Theme behind they=Location | | 3 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | walkers in fields *not said here* | | | | | between a cow and her calf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between cow=Trajectory | 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:everyday:028-farm-animals-and-horses.lesson:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Farm animals and horses, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/2/) - next →: [Farm animals and horses, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/)