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title: A sheep stuck on its back cannot get up and can die, so you tell the… — Allergies, horses and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: A sheep stuck on its back cannot get up and can die, so you tell the farmer. Who acts: sheep, you. A sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Allergies, horses and farm animals, sentence 20

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A sheep stuck on its back cannot get up and can die, so you tell the farmer.

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**Who acts:** sheep, you · **What happens:** stick, not get up, die, tell · **To what, where:** sheep, back, farmer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:20
# text = A sheep stuck on its back cannot get up and can die, so you tell the farmer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **stick** | participle |  | a sheep *not said here* |  | sheep's back |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on back=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **get up** | can | a sheep |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **die** | can | a sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  | the farmer |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient |

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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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**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:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

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