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title: A foal can usually stand within about an hour of birth and run withi… — Horses, zebras and donkeys · tree and pragmatics
description: A foal can usually stand within about an hour of birth and run within hours, and its legs are nearly as long as an adult's. Who acts: foal, legs. A sentence of the lesson «Horses, zebras and donkeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Horses, zebras and donkeys, sentence 9

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A foal can usually stand within about an hour of birth and run within hours, and its legs are nearly as long as an adult's.

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**Who acts:** foal, legs · **What happens:** stand, run, be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, zebras and donkeys» 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 (foal, legs), 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:9
# text = A foal can usually stand within about an hour of birth and run within hours, and its legs are nearly as long as an adult's.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | can | a foal |  |  |  | hour | usually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | infinitive | a foal *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | foal's legs |  |  |  |  | as a adult; long, nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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: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): R3-conj-first ×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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