--- title: A horse's stomach is small, so it eats grass and hay for many hours… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: A horse's stomach is small, so it eats grass and hay for many hours a day, about two kilograms of food for every hundred kilograms it weighs. Who acts: stomach, 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 (stomach, 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:5 # text = A horse's stomach is small, so it eats grass and hay for many hours a day, about two kilograms of food for every hundred kilograms it weighs. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 27 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a horse's stomach | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | horse | grass and hay | | | hour | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient | | 3 | **weigh** | present | horse | every hundred kilograms *not said here* | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | 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:5`. **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 ×2, 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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