--- title: Goats can butt hard enough to knock a child over; a goat that lowers… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics description: Goats can butt hard enough to knock a child over; a goat that lowers its head may be about to butt, so you move away calmly and never turn your back on it. Who acts: Goats, goat, you. 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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 (Goats, goat, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:24 # text = Goats can butt hard enough to knock a child over; a goat that lowers its head may be about to butt, so you move away calmly and never turn your back on it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 butt butt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 5 enough enough ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 lowers lower VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 butt butt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **butt** | can | Goats | | | | | hard *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **knock over** | to-infinitive | Goats *not said here* | a child | | | | over *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 3 | **lower** | present | a goat | half's head | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 4 | **is** | may | a goat | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **butt** | to-infinitive | a goat *not said here* | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **move away** | present | you | | | | | away, calmly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **turn** | present | you *not said here* | your back | | half | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | 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:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:24`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/23/) - next →: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/)