--- title: A horse's eyes on the sides of its head let it see almost all round,… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: A horse's eyes on the sides of its head let it see almost all round, but it has blind spots right in front of its nose and right behind it, so a horse surprised from behind may kick out in fright. Who acts: eyes, 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 (eyes, 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:7 # text = A horse's eyes on the sides of its head let it see almost all round, but it has blind spots right in front of its nose and right behind it, so a horse surprised from behind may kick out in fright. # 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 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 round round ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:ccomp 21 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 right right ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 right right ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 behind behind ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 37 surprised surprise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:acl 38 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 behind behind ADV RB _ 37 obl _ _ 40 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 42 out out ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | infinitive | a horse's eyes on the sides of horse's head | horse | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | horse *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | present | horse | blind spots | | front of horse's nose | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 4 | **surprise** | participle | | a horse *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **kick out** | may | a horse | | | fright | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:7`. **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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