--- title: A dog off its lead in Wales chased a field of lambs; several were hu… — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries… · tree and pragmatics description: A dog off its lead in Wales chased a field of lambs; several were hurt, and the farmer was allowed by law to stop the dog. Who acts: dog, law, farmer. A sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/20/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, bl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/) / 20 # Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 20 A dog off its lead in Wales chased a field of lambs; several were hurt, and the farmer was allowed by law to stop the dog. **Who acts:** dog, law, farmer · **What happens:** chase, hurt, allow, stop · **To what, where:** field, several, farmer, dog This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» 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 (dog, law, farmer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:20 # text = A dog off its lead in Wales chased a field of lambs; several were hurt, and the farmer was allowed by law to stop the dog. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 off off ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 lambs lamb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **chase** | past | a dog off picnic's lead in Wales | a field of lambs | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | | 2 | **hurt** | past · passive | | several | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **allow** | past · passive | law | the farmer | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the farmer *not said here* | the dog | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dog=Eventuality | 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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:20`. **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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