--- title: A hoof is made of keratin like your fingernails, so a farrier's nail… — Horses, zebras and donkeys · tree and pragmatics description: A hoof is made of keratin like your fingernails, so a farrier's nails in a properly fitted shoe don't hurt; a horse walks on the tip of one toe on each leg. Who acts: nails, horse. 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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 (nails, horse), 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:6 # text = A hoof is made of keratin like your fingernails, so a farrier's nails in a properly fitted shoe don't hurt; a horse walks on the tip of one toe on each leg. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hoof hoof NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 fingernails fingernail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 farrier farrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 properly properly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fitted fit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 shoe shoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **make** | present · passive | | a hoof | | | | of keratin; like your fingernails | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **fit** | participle | | | | | | properly *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **hurt** | present · do-support | a farrier's nails in a fitted shoe | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **walk** | present | a horse | | | the tip of one toe on each leg | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tip=Trajectory | 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:6`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Horses, zebras and donkeys, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/5/) - next →: [Horses, zebras and donkeys, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/)