--- title: It can even doze standing up, because its legs lock with a system ca… — Horses, zebras and donkeys · tree and pragmatics description: It can even doze standing up, because its legs lock with a system called the stay apparatus, so it is ready to run the moment a predator appears. Who acts: hoof, legs, system, it. 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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 (hoof, legs, system, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.lesson:1 # text = It can even doze standing up, because its legs lock with a system called the stay apparatus, so it is ready to run the moment a predator appears. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.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 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 even even ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 doze doze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lock lock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 stay stay NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 apparatus apparatus NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 predator predator NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **doze** | can | hoof | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stand up** | gerund | hoof *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lock** | present | hoof's legs | | | | | with a system | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **call** | participle | a system *not said here* | the stay apparatus | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | it | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **run** | to-infinitive | | | | | moment | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **appear** | present | a predator | the moment *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.lesson:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Horses, zebras and donkeys, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/0/) - next →: [Horses, zebras and donkeys, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/)