--- title: A horse can even doze on its feet: special locking joints in its leg… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: A horse can even doze on its feet: special locking joints in its legs hold it up without effort, so it is ready to run the moment it wakes, although it still lies down for short spells of deep sleep. Who acts: horse, special locking joints, it. 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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, special locking joints, it), 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:2 # text = A horse can even doze on its feet: special locking joints in its legs hold it up without effort, so it is ready to run the moment it wakes, although it still lies down for short spells of deep sleep. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 even even ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 doze doze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 locking lock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod 12 joints joint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 13 in in SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj 16 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 without without ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 wakes wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 although although SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 spells spell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **doze** | can | a horse | | | horse's feet | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lock** | gerund | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hold up** | present | special locking joints horse's legs *not said here* | horse | | | | without effort | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | it | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **run** | to-infinitive | | | | | moment | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **wake** | present | horse | the moment *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent moment=Patient | | 7 | **lie down** | present | horse | | | | still | for short spells of deep sleep | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **spell** | | | deep sleep | | | | | nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient | 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:2`. **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, R7-rel-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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