--- title: Ears pricked forward mean a horse is interested; ears pinned flat ba… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics description: Ears pricked forward mean a horse is interested; ears pinned flat back are a warning that it is angry or annoyed. Who acts: Ears, horse. 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 with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Horses and ponies: how they eat, see,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds/) / 8 # Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds, sentence 8 Ears pricked forward mean a horse is interested; ears pinned flat back are a warning that it is angry or annoyed. **Who acts:** Ears, horse · **What happens:** prick, mean, be, pin · **To what, where:** Ears, warning · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ears, 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:8 # text = Ears pricked forward mean a horse is interested; ears pinned flat back are a warning that it is angry or annoyed. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 pricked prick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 forward forward ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 interested interested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 10 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 11 pinned pin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod 13 back back ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 acl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prick** | participle | | Ears *not said here* | | | | forward *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **mean** | present | Ears | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | a horse | | | | | interested *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **pin** | participle | | ears *not said here* | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | ears | a warning | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | horse | a warning *not said here* | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | horse *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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