Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds, sentence 12

A foal stands and walks within a few hours of birth, on legs that are very long for its body, because a wild foal must keep up with the herd.

Who acts: foal, legs, wild foal · What happens: stand, walk, be, keep up

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 (foal, legs, wild foal), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 foal	det
2	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stands	nsubj
3	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walks	cc
5	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stands	conj
6	within	within	ADP	_	9 hours	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hours	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hours	amod
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walks	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 birth	case
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hours	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 legs	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 legs	case
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hours	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 long	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 long	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 legs	acl:relcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 body	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 body	nmod:poss
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 long	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 keep	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 keep	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 foal	det
25	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 foal	amod
26	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keep	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 keep	aux
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 walks	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 keep	compound:prt
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 herd	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 herd	det
32	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keep	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stands	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a foal			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	present	a foal not said here	hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	legs		for foal's body; long property	tree rules
4	keep up	must	a wild foal		with the herd	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent

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:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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