--- title: Its eyes sit on the sides of its head so it can see nearly all the w… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: Its eyes sit on the sides of its head so it can see nearly all the way round, and when one horse in a field suddenly bolts, the whole herd thunders after it without stopping to ask why. Who acts: eyes, horse, one horse, whole herd. 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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 (eyes, horse, one horse, whole herd), 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:1 # text = Its eyes sit on the sides of its head so it can see nearly all the way round, and when one horse in a field suddenly bolts, the whole herd thunders after it without stopping to ask why. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 so so SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 14 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 round round ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 21 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 bolts bolt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 31 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:amod 32 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 thunders thunder VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 without without SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 stopping stop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | horse's eyes | | | the sides of horse's head | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | | 2 | **see** | can | horse | all way | | | | nearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **bolt** | present | one horse in a field | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **thunder** | present | the whole herd | | | | after horse | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | gerund | the whole herd *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the whole herd *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:1`. **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): R5-strong ×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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