--- title: Cows lie down for many reasons, such as resting and chewing their cu… — Pets and farm animals · tree and pragmatics description: Cows lie down for many reasons, such as resting and chewing their cud (bringing swallowed grass back up to chew again); lying down does not predict rain. Who acts: Cows, many reasons, lying. 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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, many reasons, lying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:12 # text = Cows lie down for many reasons, such as resting and chewing their cud (bringing swallowed grass back up to chew again); lying down does not predict rain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 007-pets-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 10 mark _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 cud cud NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 17 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 up up ADP IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 chew chew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl 23 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 26 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 csubj _ _ 27 down down ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 predict predict VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 31 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie down** | present | Cows | | | | | for many reasons; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rest** | gerund | many reasons *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **chew** | gerund | many reasons *not said here* | cow's cud | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient | | 4 | **bring back** | gerund | | swallowed grass | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grass=Theme | | 5 | **swallow** | participle | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **chew** | to-infinitive | | | | | again | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **lie down** | gerund | | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **not** **predict** | present · do-support | lying | rain | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rain=Topic | 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:myths:007-pets-and-farm-animals.lesson:12`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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: [Pets and farm animals, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/11/) - next →: [Pets and farm animals, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/)