--- title: Grooming cleans the coat and lets the rider check for cuts; dirt lef… — Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donk… · tree and pragmatics description: Grooming cleans the coat and lets the rider check for cuts; dirt left under the saddle can rub sores, and horses groom each other by nibbling at the withers, the bony top of the shoulders. Who acts: Grooming, rider, dirt, horses. 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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 (Grooming, rider, dirt, horses), 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:9 # text = Grooming cleans the coat and lets the rider check for cuts; dirt left under the saddle can rub sores, and horses groom each other by nibbling at the withers, the bony top of the shoulders. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 Grooming groom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cleans clean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 6 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rider rider NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 saddle saddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 rub rub VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 20 sores sore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 23 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 groom groom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 24 obj _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 fixed _ _ 27 by by SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 nibbling nibble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 withers wither NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clean** | present | Grooming | the coat | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | | 2 | **let** | present | Grooming *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **check** | infinitive | the rider | | | | | for cuts | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for cut=Attribute | | 4 | **leave** | participle | | dirt *not said here* | | the saddle | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent under saddle=Location | | 5 | **rub** | can | dirt | sores | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sore=Theme | | 6 | **groom** | present | horses | each | | | | | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | | 7 | **nibble** | gerund | horses *not said here* | | | | | at the withers | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wither=Patient | 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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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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