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title: Wool comes from sheep that are usually sheared once a year, which, d… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics
description: Wool comes from sheep that are usually sheared once a year, which, done properly, does not hurt them: it is like a haircut and keeps them cool in summer. Who acts: Wool. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 14

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Wool comes from sheep that are usually sheared once a year, which, done properly, does not hurt them: it is like a haircut and keeps them cool in summer.

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**Who acts:** Wool · **What happens:** come, shear, do, not hurt, be, keep · **To what, where:** sheep

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology 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 (Wool), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:14
# text = Wool comes from sheep that are usually sheared once a year, which, done properly, does not hurt them: it is like a haircut and keeps them cool in summer.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sheared	shear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
16	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	haircut	haircut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | present | Wool |  |  |  |  | from sheep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sheep=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shear** | present · passive |  | sheep |  |  |  | once, usually *property* | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **hurt** | present · do-support |  | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | Wool |  |  |  |  | like a haircut | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep** | present | Wool *not said here* | sheep |  |  | summer | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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