Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 1
When a farrier, a person who cares for horses' feet, nails a metal shoe onto it, the horse does not mind, just as you do not feel it when your nails are cut, because the outer hoof wall has no feeling.
Who acts: person, farrier, horse, you, outer hoof wall · What happens: care, nail, not mind, not feel, cut, have · To what, where: metal shoe, farrier, nails, feeling
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules» 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 (person, farrier, horse, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | _ | 14 nails | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 farrier | det |
| 3 | farrier | farrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nails | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 farrier | appos |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 cares | nsubj |
| 8 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 horses | case |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cares | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nails | punct |
| 14 | nails | nail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mind | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shoe | det |
| 16 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoe | compound |
| 17 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nails | obj |
| 18 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nails | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mind | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mind | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mind | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 mind | advmod |
| 25 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 feel | punct |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 feel | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 feel | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 feel | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 feel | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 feel | advmod |
| 32 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 mind | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 feel | obj |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 cut | advmod |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 nails | nmod:poss |
| 36 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 cut | aux:pass |
| 38 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 feel | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 has | punct |
| 40 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 45 has | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wall | det |
| 42 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 wall | amod |
| 43 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wall | compound |
| 44 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 has | nsubj |
| 45 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 mind | advcl |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 feeling | det |
| 47 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 has | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present | a person | for horses's feet | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for foot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nail | present | a farrier | a metal shoe | onto shoe | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient onto it=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | not mind | present · do-support | the horse | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not feel | present · do-support | you | farrier | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cut | present · passive | your nails | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 6 | have | present | the outer hoof wall | no feeling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient |
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:208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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