--- title: Sugar lumps are bad for horses: too much sugar harms teeth and can b… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: Sugar lumps are bad for horses: too much sugar harms teeth and can bring on a painful foot illness, and a slice of apple or carrot held on a flat hand, so fingers do not get nipped by mistake, is a better treat. Who acts: Sugar lumps, much sugar, mistake, slice. 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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 (Sugar lumps, much sugar, mistake, slice), 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:6 # text = Sugar lumps are bad for horses: too much sugar harms teeth and can bring on a painful foot illness, and a slice of apple or carrot held on a flat hand, so fingers do not get nipped by mistake, is a better treat. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 8 too too ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 harms harm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 painful painful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 slice slice NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 carrot carrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 so so SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 36 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 39 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 nipped nip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 47 amod _ _ 47 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Sugar lumps | | | | | for horses; bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **harm** | present | much sugar | teeth | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer | | 3 | **bring on** | can | much sugar *not said here* | a painful foot illness | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent illness=Theme | | 4 | **hold** | participle | | a slice of apple or carrot *not said here* | | a flat hand | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location | | 5 | **not** **nip** | present · passive · do-support | mistake | fingers | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location subject=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | a slice of apple or carrot | a better treat | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **slice** | | | apple or carrot | | | | | nom slice «possession 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:6`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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