--- title: A horse's hoof wall is like a thick fingernail with no feeling, so a… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics description: A horse's hoof wall is like a thick fingernail with no feeling, so a farrier can nail on a shoe without hurting it; hooves keep growing and need trimming every few weeks. Who acts: hoof wall, farrier, hooves. 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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 (hoof wall, farrier, hooves), 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:4 # text = A horse's hoof wall is like a thick fingernail with no feeling, so a farrier can nail on a shoe without hurting it; hooves keep growing and need trimming every few weeks. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 hoof hoof NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 fingernail fingernail NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 farrier farrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 nail nail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 without without SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 hurting hurt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 advcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 hooves hoof NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 29 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 trimming trim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 34 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a horse's hoof wall | | | | | like a thick fingernail; with no feeling | tree rules | | 2 | **nail** | can | a farrier | | | | | on a shoe | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on shoe=Co-Patient | | 3 | **hurt** | gerund | a farrier *not said here* | farrier | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | present | hooves | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | gerund | hooves *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **need** | present | hooves *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **trim** *not said to happen* | gerund | hooves *not said here* | | | | week | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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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