Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 13

Horses are flight animals that react first and think later, so they may snort and jump at a plastic bag, and calm, patient riders help them get used to scary things.

Who acts: Horses, flight animals, patient riders · What happens: be, react, think, snort, jump, help · To what, where: flight animals, plastic bag, horses

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, flight animals, patient riders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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