Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 12

Horses are measured in hands, about ten centimetres each, from the ground to the top of the shoulders; people once measured with the width of a hand.

Who acts: people · What happens: measure · To what, where: Horses, hands

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 (people), 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	3 measured	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 measured	aux:pass
3	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 hands	case
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 measured	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 centimetres	punct
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 ten	advmod
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 centimetres	nummod
9	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 measured	obl:unmarked
10	each	each	ADV	_	9 centimetres	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ground	punct
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 ground	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ground	det
14	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 measured	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 measured	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 shoulders	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shoulders	det
20	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 top	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 measured	punct
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 measured	nsubj
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 measured	advmod
24	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 measured	parataxis
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 width	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 width	det
27	width	width	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 measured	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hand	det
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 width	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 measured	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	present · passive		Horses		hands		from the ground; to the top of the shoulders; ten centimetres obl:unmarked	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
2	measure	participle	people					with the width of a hand; once property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:12.

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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