Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds, sentence 11

Horses roll to scratch itches and care for their coats, often after a sweaty ride, and a coat of mud helps keep flies off.

Who acts: Horses, coat · What happens: roll, scratch, care, help, keep off · To what, where: itches, flies

This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds» of the biology 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 (Horses, coat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roll	nsubj
2	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 scratch	mark
4	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 roll	advcl
5	itches	itch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scratch	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 care	cc
7	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 roll	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 coats	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 coats	nmod:poss
10	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 care	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ride	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	2 roll	advmod
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 ride	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ride	det
15	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ride	amod
16	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 care	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 helps	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coat	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 coat	det
20	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 helps	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 mud	case
22	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coat	nmod
23	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 roll	conj
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 helps	xcomp
25	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 keep	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	24 keep	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 roll	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	Horses			often property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scratch	to-infinitive	Horses not said here	itches			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itch=Theme
3	care	present	Horses not said here		after a sweaty ride	for itches's coats	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for coat=Theme
4	help	present	a coat of mud				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	keep off	infinitive	a coat of mud not said here	flies			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

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, 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:biology:207-horses-and-ponies-how-they-eat-see-sleep-and-live-in-herds.lesson:11.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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