Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 11

Horses cannot be sick, because a strong muscle at the entrance of the stomach lets food go only one way, so a tummy ache called colic can be very dangerous for a horse.

Who acts: Horses, strong muscle, food, tummy ache · What happens: not be, let, go, call, be · To what, where: one way, colic · Speech: someone speaks here

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, strong muscle, food, tummy ache), 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	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sick	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sick	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sick	cop
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lets	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 lets	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 muscle	det
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 muscle	amod
10	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lets	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 entrance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 entrance	det
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 muscle	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 stomach	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stomach	det
16	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entrance	nmod
17	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	advcl
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 lets	xcomp
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 way	nummod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dangerous	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	33 dangerous	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ache	det
26	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ache	compound
27	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dangerous	nsubj
28	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 ache	acl
29	colic	colic	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	xcomp
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 dangerous	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 dangerous	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 dangerous	advmod
33	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sick	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 horse	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 horse	det
36	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dangerous	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sick	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	can	Horses		sick property	tree rules
2	let	present	a strong muscle at the entrance of the stomach			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	food	one way		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	participle	a tummy ache not said here	colic		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	can	a tummy ache		for a horse; dangerous property	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:208-hooves-riding-and-caring-for-a-horse-plus-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:11.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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