--- title: Horses and ponies graze up to about 16 hours a day, a little at a ti… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics description: Horses and ponies graze up to about 16 hours a day, a little at a time, because their stomachs are small, and they cannot vomit, so a bad meal can make them very ill. Who acts: Horses, stomachs, bad meal. 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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 (Horses, stomachs, bad meal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:10 # text = Horses and ponies graze up to about 16 hours a day, a little at a time, because their stomachs are small, and they cannot vomit, so a bad meal can make them very ill. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 139-peppas-friends-as-real-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): R5-strong ×1 1 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 ponies pony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 graze graze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 stomachs stomach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 vomit vomit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **graze up** | present | Horses and ponies | | | | hour | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | horses's stomachs | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **vomit** | can | horses *= horse* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | can | a bad meal | horses *= horse* | | | | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | 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. 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