--- title: A girl in Kentucky walked right behind a horse without speaking; it… — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Kentucky walked right behind a horse without speaking; it was startled, kicked out and bruised her leg badly. Who acts: girl. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Farm animals and horses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/) / 6 # Farm animals and horses, sentence 6 A girl in Kentucky walked right behind a horse without speaking; it was startled, kicked out and bruised her leg badly. **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** walk, speak, startle, kick out, bruise · **To what, where:** horse, leg · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (girl), 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:6 # text = A girl in Kentucky walked right behind a horse without speaking; it was startled, kicked out and bruised her leg badly. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Kentucky Kentucky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 right right ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 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 5 obl _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 startled startle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 17 kicked kick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 bruised bruise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | a girl in Kentucky | | | | | behind a horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind horse=Trajectory | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a girl in Kentucky *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **startle** | past · passive | | horse | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **kick out** | participle | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **bruise** | past | | girl's leg | | | | badly *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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:6`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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: [Farm animals and horses, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/5/) - next →: [Farm animals and horses, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/)