--- title: When a horse curls up its top lip and shows its teeth, it is not lau… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: When a horse curls up its top lip and shows its teeth, it is not laughing: this is called flehmen, and it pushes a smell up to a special sense organ in the roof of the mouth, as cats and goats also do. 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:13 # text = When a horse curls up its top lip and shows its teeth, it is not laughing: this is called flehmen, and it pushes a smell up to a special sense organ in the roof of the mouth, as cats and goats also do. # 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 ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 curls curl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 22 flehmen flehmen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 xcomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 43 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 also also ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:parataxis 48 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **curl up** | present | a horse | horse's top lip | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | | 2 | **show** | present | a horse *not said here* | horse's teeth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **laugh** | present · progressive | horse | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **push up** | present | horse | a smell | | a special sense organ in the roof of the mouth | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent smell=Theme to organ=Trajectory | 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:13`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Horses and ponies: how they eat, see,…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds/12/) - next →: [Hooves, riding and caring for a horse,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds/)