Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds, sentence 5

A horse's stomach is small, so it eats grass and hay for many hours a day, about two kilograms of food for every hundred kilograms it weighs.

Who acts: stomach, horse · What happens: be, eat, weigh · To what, where: grass, hundred kilograms

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 (stomach, horse), 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 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stomach	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 small	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eats	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 eats	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eats	nsubj
10	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 small	parataxis
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eats	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hay	cc
13	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grass	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 hours	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hours	amod
16	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eats	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hours	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kilograms	punct
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 two	advmod
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 kilograms	nummod
22	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 small	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 food	case
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kilograms	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 kilograms	case
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 kilograms	det
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 kilograms	nummod
28	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 kilograms	nmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 weighs	nsubj
30	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 kilograms	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 small	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a horse's stomach			small property	tree rules
2	eat	present	horse	grass and hay	hour		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	weigh	present	horse	every hundred kilograms not said here			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value

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:5.

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.

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