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title: Cows, goats and sheep give milk. — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Cows, goats and sheep give milk. Who acts: Cows. A sentence of the lesson «Farms and where our food comes from» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Farms and where our food comes from, sentence 11

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Cows, goats and sheep give milk.

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**Who acts:** Cows · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** milk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farms and where our food comes from» 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 (Cows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:080-farms-and-our-food.lesson:11
# text = Cows, goats and sheep give milk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 080-farms-and-our-food.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): no change
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **give** | present | Cows and goats and sheep | milk |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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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**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:080-farms-and-our-food.lesson:11`.

**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): no change. **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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