Horses and ponies: how they eat, see, sleep and live in herds, sentence 8

Ears pricked forward mean a horse is interested; ears pinned flat back are a warning that it is angry or annoyed.

Who acts: Ears, horse · What happens: prick, mean, be, pin · To what, where: Ears, warning · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ears, 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	Ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mean	nsubj
2	pricked	prick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ears	acl
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 pricked	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 interested	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 interested	cop
8	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mean	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 warning	punct
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 warning	nsubj
11	pinned	pin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ears	acl
12	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 back	advmod
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 pinned	advmod
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 warning	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 warning	det
16	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 angry	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 angry	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 angry	cop
20	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 warning	acl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 annoyed	cc
22	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 angry	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prick	participle		Ears not said here	forward property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	present	Ears			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	a horse		interested property	tree rules
4	pin	participle		ears not said here		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is a	present	ears	a warning		tree rules
6	is	present	horse	a warning not said here	angry property	tree rules
7	be		horse not said here			tree rules

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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.

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