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title: Ponies are horses below a certain height, often sturdy, hardy and cl… — Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ponies are horses below a certain height, often sturdy, hardy and clever, and Shetland ponies from cold Scottish islands grow thick winter coats. Who acts: Ponies, Shetland ponies. A sentence of the lesson «Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds» of the biology course of Mova'
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# Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds, sentence 9

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Ponies are horses below a certain height, often sturdy, hardy and clever, and Shetland ponies from cold Scottish islands grow thick winter coats.

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**Who acts:** Ponies, Shetland ponies · **What happens:** be, grow · **To what, where:** horses, certain height, thick winter coats

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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 (Ponies, Shetland ponies), 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:9
# text = Ponies are horses below a certain height, often sturdy, hardy and clever, and Shetland ponies from cold Scottish islands grow thick winter coats.
# 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): no change
1	Ponies	pony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	below	below	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	hardy	hardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	Shetland	shetland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	ponies	pony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ponies | horses |  | a certain height |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Shetland ponies from cold Scottish islands | thick winter coats |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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