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title: When a farrier, a person who cares for horses' feet, nails a metal s… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a farrier, a person who cares for horses' feet, nails a metal shoe onto it, the horse does not mind, just as you do not feel it when your nails are cut, because the outer hoof wall has no feeling. Who acts: person, farrier, horse, you. A sentence of the lesson «Hooves, riding and caring for a h
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# Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 1

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When a farrier, a person who cares for horses' feet, nails a metal shoe onto it, the horse does not mind, just as you do not feel it when your nails are cut, because the outer hoof wall has no feeling.

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**Who acts:** person, farrier, horse, you, outer hoof wall · **What happens:** care, nail, not mind, not feel, cut, have · **To what, where:** metal shoe, farrier, nails, feeling

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules» 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 (person, farrier, horse, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:1
# text = When a farrier, a person who cares for horses' feet, nails a metal shoe onto it, the horse does not mind, just as you do not feel it when your nails are cut, because the outer hoof wall has no feeling.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	farrier	farrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	nails	nail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **care** | present | a person |  |  |  |  | for horses's feet | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for foot=Theme |
| 2 | **nail** | present | a farrier | a metal shoe |  |  |  | onto shoe | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient onto it=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **not** **mind** | present · do-support | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | you | farrier |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **cut** | present · passive |  | your nails |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 6 | **have** | present | the outer hoof wall | no feeling |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |

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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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**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): 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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