--- title: Horses are measured in hands, about ten centimetres each, from the g… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics description: Horses are measured in hands, about ten centimetres each, from the ground to the top of the shoulders; people once measured with the width of a hand. Who acts: people. A sentence of the lesson «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 12 Horses are measured in hands, about ten centimetres each, from the ground to the top of the shoulders; people once measured with the width of a hand. **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** measure · **To what, where:** Horses, hands 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 (people), 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:12 # text = Horses are measured in hands, about ten centimetres each, from the ground to the top of the shoulders; people once measured with the width of a hand. # 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 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 each each ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 23 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 advmod _ _ 24 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 width width NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | present · passive | | Horses | | hands | | from the ground; to the top of the shoulders; ten centimetres *obl:unmarked* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | | 2 | **measure** | participle | people | | | | | with the width of a hand; once *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:12`. **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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