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title: Feed a horse a treat from a flat, open hand so your fingers are not… — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics
description: Feed a horse a treat from a flat, open hand so your fingers are not bitten by mistake. Who acts: you, mistake. A sentence of the lesson «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Farm animals and horses, sentence 10

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Feed a horse a treat from a flat, open hand so your fingers are not bitten by mistake.

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**Who acts:** you, mistake · **What happens:** feed, not bite · **To what, where:** treat, horse, flat open hand, fingers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday 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 (you, mistake), 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:10
# text = Feed a horse a treat from a flat, open hand so your fingers are not bitten by mistake.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | imperative | you *not said here* | a treat | a horse | a flat open hand |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient treat=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **bite** | present · passive | mistake | your fingers |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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:everyday:028-farm-animals-and-horses.lesson:10`.

**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): 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/).

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