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title: A blacksmith fits one horseshoe on each hoof, so every horse needs 4… — Hooves and horseshoes · tree and pragmatics
description: A blacksmith fits one horseshoe on each hoof, so every horse needs 4 horseshoes. Who acts: blacksmith, horse. A sentence of the lesson «Hooves and horseshoes» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hooves and horseshoes, sentence 1

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A blacksmith fits one horseshoe on each hoof, so every horse needs 4 horseshoes.

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**Who acts:** blacksmith, horse · **What happens:** fit, need · **To what, where:** one horseshoe, hoof, 4 horseshoes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hooves and horseshoes» of the lessons 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 (blacksmith, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:206-horseshoes.lesson:1
# text = A blacksmith fits one horseshoe on each hoof, so every horse needs 4 horseshoes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 206-horseshoes.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	horseshoe	horseshoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	horseshoes	horseshoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fit** | present | a blacksmith | one horseshoe |  | each hoof |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent horseshoe=Theme on hoof=Trajectory |
| 2 | **need** | present | every horse | 4 horseshoes |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horseshoe=Theme |

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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:lessons:206-horseshoes.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): R5-strong ×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/).

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