--- title: A horse has eyes on the sides of its head, so it sees almost all aro… — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics description: A horse has eyes on the sides of its head, so it sees almost all around, but it has a blind spot right behind it and just in front of its nose; if something surprises it from behind, it may kick hard. Who acts: horse, something. 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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 (horse, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:028-farm-animals-and-horses.lesson:1 # text = A horse has eyes on the sides of its head, so it sees almost all around, but it has a blind spot right behind it and just in front of its nose; if something surprises it from behind, it may kick hard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 028-farm-animals-and-horses.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 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 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 all all ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 around around ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 right right ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 behind behind ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 just just ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 nsubj _ _ 38 surprises surprise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 behind behind ADV RB _ 38 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 46 hard hard ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a horse | eyes | | the sides of horse's head | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **see** | present | horse | | | | | around *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **have** | present | horse | a blind spot | | spot | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 4 | **surprise** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something | horse | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | | 5 | **kick** | may | horse | | | | | hard *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:everyday:028-farm-animals-and-horses.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Farm animals and horses, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/0/) - next →: [Farm animals and horses, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/)