Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 10

Some horses need rugs in winter, especially clipped or thin-coated ones, while hardy ponies grow thick coats and may need no rug at all.

Who acts: horses, hardy ponies · What happens: need, clip, coat, grow · To what, where: rugs, thick coats, rug, all

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 (horses, hardy ponies), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 horses	det
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rugs	rug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clipped	punct
8	especially	especially	ADV	_	9 clipped	advmod
9	clipped	clip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rugs	acl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 ones	cc
11	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ones	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 thin	punct
13	coated	coat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 clipped	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grow	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 grow	mark
17	hardy	hardy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ponies	amod
18	ponies	pony	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grow	nsubj
19	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	advcl
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 coats	amod
21	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grow	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 need	cc
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 need	aux
24	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 grow	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 rug	det
26	rug	rug	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 need	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 need	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	some horses	rugs		winter		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rug=Theme
2	clip	participle		rugs not said here			especially property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	coat	participle						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	grow	present	hardy ponies	thick coats				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme
5	need	may	hardy ponies not said here	no rug	all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rug=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:208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:10.

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): no change. 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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