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title: Ponies are small horses, usually under about 1.47 metres at the shou… — Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ponies are small horses, usually under about 1.47 metres at the shoulder, often from cold hilly places like Shetland, Wales or Dartmoor, with short legs and thick coats for wind and rain. Who acts: Ponies. A sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, k
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# Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 8

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Ponies are small horses, usually under about 1.47 metres at the shoulder, often from cold hilly places like Shetland, Wales or Dartmoor, with short legs and thick coats for wind and rain.

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**Who acts:** Ponies · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** small horses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» of the biology 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 (Ponies), 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:8
# text = Ponies are small horses, usually under about 1.47 metres at the shoulder, often from cold hilly places like Shetland, Wales or Dartmoor, with short legs and thick coats for wind and rain.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Ponies	pony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	1.47	1.47	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	hilly	hilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Shetland	Shetland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Dartmoor	Dartmoor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Ponies | small horses and 1.47 metres at the shoulder and cold hilly places like Shetland and Wales or Dartmoor and short legs for wind and rain and thick coats |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:biology:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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