--- title: Horses roll to scratch itches and care for their coats, often after… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: Horses roll to scratch itches and care for their coats, often after a sweaty ride, and a coat of mud helps keep flies off. Who acts: Horses, coat. 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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, coat), 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:11 # text = Horses roll to scratch itches and care for their coats, often after a sweaty ride, and a coat of mud helps keep flies off. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 roll roll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 scratch scratch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 5 itches itch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sweaty sweaty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 25 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | present | Horses | | | | | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **scratch** | to-infinitive | Horses *not said here* | itches | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itch=Theme | | 3 | **care** | present | Horses *not said here* | | | | after a sweaty ride | for itches's coats | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for coat=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | a coat of mud | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **keep off** | infinitive | a coat of mud *not said here* | flies | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. 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