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title: Grown-up cows drink water; calves drink milk from their mothers. — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-up cows drink water; calves drink milk from their mothers. Who acts: Grown cows, calves. A sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 16

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Grown-up cows drink water; calves drink milk from their mothers.

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**Who acts:** Grown cows, calves · **What happens:** grow up, drink · **To what, where:** water, milk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world 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 (Grown cows, calves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:16
# text = Grown-up cows drink water; calves drink milk from their mothers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=1:compound
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	calves	calf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | present | Grown cows | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | present | calves | milk |  |  |  | from calves's mothers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |

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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:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:16`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-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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