--- title: A foal stands and walks within a few hours of birth, on legs that ar… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: A foal stands and walks within a few hours of birth, on legs that are very long for its body, because a wild foal must keep up with the herd. Who acts: foal, legs, wild foal. 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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 (foal, legs, wild foal), 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:12 # text = A foal stands and walks within a few hours of birth, on legs that are very long for its body, because a wild foal must keep up with the herd. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 within within ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 foal foal NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | a foal | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **walk** | present | a foal *not said here* | | | | hour | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | legs | | | | | for foal's body; long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep up** | must | a wild foal | | | | | with the herd | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: 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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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