--- title: Riders wear helmets on every horse, even a quiet pony, because any h… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics description: Riders wear helmets on every horse, even a quiet pony, because any horse may spook (suddenly take fright) at a bag or a bird and throw its rider, and helmets prevent many serious head injuries. Who acts: Riders, horse, helmets. 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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 (Riders, horse, helmets), 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:6 # text = Riders wear helmets on every horse, even a quiet pony, because any horse may spook (suddenly take fright) at a bag or a bird and throw its rider, and helmets prevent many serious head injuries. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Riders rider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 pony pony NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 spook spook VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 19 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp 21 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 rider rider NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 prevent prevent VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 injuries injury NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present | Riders | helmets | | | | on every horse | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme | | 2 | **spook** | may | any horse | | | a bag or a bird | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | | fright | | | | suddenly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fright=Theme | | 4 | **throw** | infinitive | any horse *not said here* | helmet's rider | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme | | 5 | **prevent** | present | helmets | many serious head injuries | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer injury=Theme | 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. 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