--- title: Dogs chasing sheep kill and injure many lambs every spring. — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries… · tree and pragmatics description: Dogs chasing sheep kill and injure many lambs every spring. Who acts: Dogs. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 22 Dogs chasing sheep kill and injure many lambs every spring. **Who acts:** Dogs · **What happens:** chase, kill, injure · **To what, where:** sheep, many lambs 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 (Dogs), 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:22 # text = Dogs chasing sheep kill and injure many lambs every spring. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 3 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 kill kill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 injure injure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lambs lamb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | gerund | Dogs *not said here* | sheep | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | | 2 | **kill** | present | Dogs | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **injure** | present | Dogs *not said here* | many lambs every spring | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:22`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, bl…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/21/) - next →: [Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, c…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/)