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title: You feed a horse only with the owner's permission, holding your hand… — Allergies, horses and farm animals · tree and pragmatics
description: You feed a horse only with the owner's permission, holding your hand flat with the food on your palm. Who acts: You, owner. A sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Allergies, horses and farm animals, sentence 14

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You feed a horse only with the owner's permission, holding your hand flat with the food on your palm.

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**Who acts:** You, owner · **What happens:** feed, hold, permit · **To what, where:** horse, hand

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» 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, owner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:14
# text = You feed a horse only with the owner's permission, holding your hand flat with the food on your palm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.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): R5-strong ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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** | present | You |  | a horse |  |  | with the owner's permission | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | You *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **permit** |  | the owner |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.lesson:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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