--- title: Horses' eyes are on the sides of the head and see almost all round,… — Horses, zebras and donkeys · tree and pragmatics description: Horses' eyes are on the sides of the head and see almost all round, with small blind spots right behind and right in front of the nose, so a horse startled from behind may kick. Who acts: eyes. 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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 (eyes), 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:7 # text = Horses' eyes are on the sides of the head and see almost all round, with small blind spots right behind and right in front of the nose, so a horse startled from behind may kick. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 almost almost ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 round round ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 21 right right ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 22 behind behind ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 34 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 behind behind ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Horses's eyes | | | the sides | | of the head | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | present | Horses's eyes *not said here* | | | | | with small blind spots; round *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **startle** | participle | | a horse *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **kick** | may | | | | | | behind *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.lesson:7`. **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, R8-pos-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/6/) - next →: [Horses, zebras and donkeys, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/)