--- title: Horses are flight animals that react first and think later, so they… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics description: Horses are flight animals that react first and think later, so they may snort and jump at a plastic bag, and calm, patient riders help them get used to scary things. Who acts: Horses, flight animals, patient riders. 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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, flight animals, patient riders), 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:13 # text = Horses are flight animals that react first and think later, so they may snort and jump at a plastic bag, and calm, patient riders help them get used to scary things. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 react react VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 snort snort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 riders rider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 used used ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | present | Horses | flight animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **react** | present | flight animals | | | | | first *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | flight animals *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **snort** | may | horses *= horse* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **jump** | infinitive | horses *= horse* *not said here* | | | a plastic bag | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bag=Trajectory | | 6 | **help** | present | patient riders | horses *= horse* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 7 | **get** | infinitive | horses *= horse* *not said here* | | | | | used *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:13`. **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): 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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