--- title: A horse is a big, strong animal, but in the wild it was always someo… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: A horse is a big, strong animal, but in the wild it was always someone's dinner, so almost everything about it is built for spotting danger and running away. Who acts: horse. 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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 (horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds.lesson:0 # text = A horse is a big, strong animal, but in the wild it was always someone's dinner, so almost everything about it is built for spotting danger and running away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 19 advmod _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 spotting spot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl 30 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 conj _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a horse | a big strong animal but someone's dinner | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | horse | someone's dinner | | the wild | | always *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **build** | present · passive | | everything | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **spot** | gerund | | danger | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Destination | | 5 | **run away** | gerund | | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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