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title: The four main paces, called gaits, are walk, trot, canter and gallop… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics
description: The four main paces, called gaits, are walk, trot, canter and gallop, from slowest to fastest, each with its own pattern of legs. Who acts: four main paces, legs. 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 w
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# Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 7

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The four main paces, called gaits, are walk, trot, canter and gallop, from slowest to fastest, each with its own pattern of legs.

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**Who acts:** four main paces, legs · **What happens:** call, be, pattern · **To what, where:** gaits, walk, slowest · **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 (four main paces, legs), 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:7
# text = The four main paces, called gaits, are walk, trot, canter and gallop, from slowest to fastest, each with its own pattern of legs.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	gaits	gait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	trot	trot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	canter	canter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	slowest	slow	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fastest	fast	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **call** | participle | the four main paces *not said here* | gaits |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the four main paces | walk and trot and canter and gallop |  | slowest |  | to fastest | tree rules |
| 3 | **pattern** |  | legs |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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): 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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