--- title: Some horses need rugs in winter, especially clipped or thin-coated o… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics description: Some horses need rugs in winter, especially clipped or thin-coated ones, while hardy ponies grow thick coats and may need no rug at all. Who acts: horses, hardy ponies. A sentence of the lesson «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules/10/) [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/) / [Hooves, riding and caring for a horse,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules/) / 10 # Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 10 Some horses need rugs in winter, especially clipped or thin-coated ones, while hardy ponies grow thick coats and may need no rug at all. **Who acts:** horses, hardy ponies · **What happens:** need, clip, coat, grow · **To what, where:** rugs, thick coats, rug, all 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 (horses, hardy ponies), 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:10 # text = Some horses need rugs in winter, especially clipped or thin-coated ones, while hardy ponies grow thick coats and may need no rug at all. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 rugs rug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 especially especially ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 clipped clip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 coated coat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 hardy hardy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ponies pony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 20 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 coats coat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 rug rug NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | some horses | rugs | | | winter | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rug=Theme | | 2 | **clip** | participle | | rugs *not said here* | | | | especially *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **coat** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | present | hardy ponies | thick coats | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme | | 5 | **need** | may | hardy ponies *not said here* | no rug | | all | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rug=Theme | 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:208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:10`. **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. 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