--- title: That is why you never walk behind a horse: approach from the side to… — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics description: That is why you never walk behind a horse: approach from the side towards its shoulder, talk softly so it knows you are there, and feed a treat only from a flat open hand. Who acts: That, you, 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 (That, you, horse), 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:2 # text = That is why you never walk behind a horse: approach from the side towards its shoulder, talk softly so it knows you are there, and feed a treat only from a flat open hand. # 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): no change 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 approach approach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 towards towards ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 20 softly softly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 ccomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **be** | present | That | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **walk** | infinitive | you | | | | | behind a horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind horse=Trajectory | | 3 | **approach** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | the side | | towards horse's shoulder | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from side=Initial\_Location towards shoulder=Destination | | 4 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | softly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | present | horse | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | present | you | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **feed** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a treat | | a flat open hand | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Recipient | 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:2`. **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): no change. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/1/) - next →: [Farm animals and horses, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/)