--- title: Horses cannot be sick, because a strong muscle at the entrance of th… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics description: Horses cannot be sick, because a strong muscle at the entrance of the stomach lets food go only one way, so a tummy ache called colic can be very dangerous for a horse. Who acts: Horses, strong muscle, food, tummy ache. 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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 (Horses, strong muscle, food, tummy ache), 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:11 # text = Horses cannot be sick, because a strong muscle at the entrance of the stomach lets food go only one way, so a tummy ache called colic can be very dangerous for a horse. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 tummy tummy NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 ache ache NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 28 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 colic colic NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | can | Horses | | | | | sick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | present | a strong muscle at the entrance of the stomach | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | food | one way | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | a tummy ache *not said here* | colic | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | can | a tummy ache | | | | | for a horse; dangerous *property* | 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:208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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