--- title: Horses can doze standing up because locking joints in their legs hol… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: Horses can doze standing up because locking joints in their legs hold them without effort, but they must lie down for short periods to get deep sleep. Who acts: Horses, joints. 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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, joints), 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:4 # text = Horses can doze standing up because locking joints in their legs hold them without effort, but they must lie down for short periods to get 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 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 doze doze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 7 locking lock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 nsubj _ _ 8 joints joint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 without without ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 effort effort NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 21 down down ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 periods period NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 27 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **doze** | can | Horses | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand up** | gerund | Horses *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lock** | gerund | | joints | | joints's legs | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joint=Patient | | 4 | **hold** | present | | joints *= joint* | | | | without effort | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **lie down** | must | joints *= joint* | | | | | for short periods | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | joints *= joint* *not said here* | deep sleep | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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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