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title: Underneath the hoof is a soft V-shaped part called the frog, which s… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics
description: Underneath the hoof is a soft V-shaped part called the frog, which soaks up the bumps and helps pump blood back up the leg, so riders pick out stones from around it before and after every ride. Who acts: soft shaped part, riders. A sentence of the lesson «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus 
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# Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 2

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Underneath the hoof is a soft V-shaped part called the frog, which soaks up the bumps and helps pump blood back up the leg, so riders pick out stones from around it before and after every ride.

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**Who acts:** soft shaped part, riders · **What happens:** shape, be, call, soak up, help back, pump · **To what, where:** V, soft shaped part, frog, bumps, blood, stones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (soft shaped part, 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:2
# text = Underneath the hoof is a soft V-shaped part called the frog, which soaks up the bumps and helps pump blood back up the leg, so riders pick out stones from around it before and after every ride.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bumps	bump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
21	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	pump	pump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	around	around	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
37	before	before	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
39	after	after	ADP	IN	_	37	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:case
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shape** | participle |  | V |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a soft shaped part |  |  |  | underneath the hoof | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a soft shaped part *not said here* | the frog |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent frog=Recipient |
| 4 | **soak up** | present | a soft shaped part | the bumps |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bump=Source |
| 5 | **help back** | present | a soft shaped part *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **pump** | infinitive | a soft shaped part *not said here* | blood |  |  |  | up the leg | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 7 | **pick out** | present | riders | stones |  |  |  | around *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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