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title: Horses also have small stomachs and graze for most of the day, and t… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Horses also have small stomachs and graze for most of the day, and they talk to each other mostly with their ears, eyes and bodies rather than with sounds. Who acts: Horses, stomachs. A sentence of the lesson «Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds» of the biology course of Mo
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# Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds, sentence 3

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Horses also have small stomachs and graze for most of the day, and they talk to each other mostly with their ears, eyes and bodies rather than with sounds.

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**Who acts:** Horses, stomachs · **What happens:** have, graze, talk · **To what, where:** small stomachs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horses, stomachs), 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:3
# text = Horses also have small stomachs and graze for most of the day, and they talk to each other mostly with their ears, eyes and bodies rather than with sounds.
# 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): no change
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	graze	graze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	16	obl	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Horses | small stomachs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stomach=Patient |
| 2 | **graze** | present | Horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for most of the day | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | present | stomachs *= stomach* |  |  |  |  | to each; with stomachs's ears and eyes and bodies than sounds | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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