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title: In 1878 the photographer Eadweard Muybridge used a row of cameras to… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1878 the photographer Eadweard Muybridge used a row of cameras to prove that a galloping horse has a moment with all four feet off the ground. Who acts: photographer, galloping horse. A sentence of the lesson «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules» of the biology course of
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# Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 8

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In 1878 the photographer Eadweard Muybridge used a row of cameras to prove that a galloping horse has a moment with all four feet off the ground.

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**Who acts:** photographer, galloping horse · **What happens:** use, prove, gallop, have · **To what, where:** row, 1878

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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 (photographer, galloping horse), 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:8
# text = In 1878 the photographer Eadweard Muybridge used a row of cameras to prove that a galloping horse has a moment with all four feet off the ground.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1878	1878	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	photographer	photographer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:appos
5	Eadweard	Eadweard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Muybridge	Muybridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cameras	camera	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **use** | past | the photographer | a row of cameras |  | 1878 |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | the photographer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **gallop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | a galloping horse |  |  |  | moment |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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