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title: Caring for a horse means brushing it, checking its feet, keeping it… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics
description: Caring for a horse means brushing it, checking its feet, keeping it warm enough and remembering that it is a flight animal that can jump sideways at a flapping bag, which is why riders always wear a helmet. Who acts: Caring, blood, flight animal, flapping bag. A sentence of the lesson «Hooves, ridin
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# Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 3

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Caring for a horse means brushing it, checking its feet, keeping it warm enough and remembering that it is a flight animal that can jump sideways at a flapping bag, which is why riders always wear a helmet.

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**Who acts:** Caring, blood, flight animal, flapping bag · **What happens:** care, mean, brush, check, keep, remember · **To what, where:** blood, feet, flight animal, flapping bag · **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 (Caring, blood, flight animal, flapping bag), 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:3
# text = Caring for a horse means brushing it, checking its feet, keeping it warm enough and remembering that it is a flight animal that can jump sideways at a flapping bag, which is why riders always wear a helmet.
# 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
1	Caring	care	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	checking	check	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	sideways	sideway	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
37	riders	rider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	39	advmod	_	_
39	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a horse | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for horse=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Caring |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **brush** *not said to happen* | gerund | Caring *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **check** | gerund | Caring *not said here* | blood's feet |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | gerund | Caring *not said here* | blood |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **remember** | gerund | Caring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | present | blood | a flight animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **jump** | can | a flight animal |  |  | a flapping bag |  | sideway *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bag=Trajectory |
| 9 | **flap** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | present | a flapping bag |  |  |  |  | always, wear *property* | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-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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