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title: The soft V-shaped part under the hoof is called the frog; it absorbs… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics
description: The soft V-shaped part under the hoof is called the frog; it absorbs shock and helps push blood back up the leg, and a stone stuck beside it can make a horse lame, so that it limps. Who acts: part, stone. A sentence of the lesson «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules» of the
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# Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 5

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The soft V-shaped part under the hoof is called the frog; it absorbs shock and helps push blood back up the leg, and a stone stuck beside it can make a horse lame, so that it limps.

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**Who acts:** part, stone · **What happens:** shape, call, absorb, help, push, stick · **To what, where:** soft shaped part, shock, blood, hoof, horse · **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 (part, stone), 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:5
# text = The soft V-shaped part under the hoof is called the frog; it absorbs shock and helps push blood back up the leg, and a stone stuck beside it can make a horse lame, so that it limps.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	absorbs	absorb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
17	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
30	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	limps	limp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the soft shaped part under the hoof |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **absorb** | present | part | shock |  |  |  |  | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal shock=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | present | part *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **push** | infinitive | part *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
| 6 | **stick** | participle | a stone *not said here* | hoof |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **make** | can | a stone *not said here* | a horse |  |  |  | lame *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset horse=Product |
| 8 | **limp** | present | part |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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