Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 3

Caring for a horse means brushing it, checking its feet, keeping it warm enough and remembering that it is a flight animal that can jump sideways at a flapping bag, which is why riders always wear a helmet.

Who acts: Caring, blood, flight animal, flapping bag · What happens: care, mean, brush, check, keep, remember · To what, where: blood, feet, flight animal, flapping bag · 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 (Caring, blood, flight animal, flapping bag), 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	Caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	csubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 horse	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Caring	obl
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	brushing	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brushing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 checking	punct
9	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 brushing	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 checking	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keeping	punct
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 brushing	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keeping	obj
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keeping	xcomp
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 warm	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 remembering	cc
18	remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 brushing	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 animal	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 animal	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 animal	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 animal	det
23	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 animal	compound
24	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remembering	ccomp
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 jump	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 jump	aux
27	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 animal	acl:relcl
28	sideways	sideway	ADV	_	27 jump	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 bag	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bag	det
31	flapping	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 bag	amod
32	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 jump	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wear	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 wear	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 wear	cop
36	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	39 wear	advmod
37	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 wear	nsubj
38	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	39 wear	advmod
39	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bag	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 helmet	det
41	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wear	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	care	gerund				for a horse	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for horse=Theme
2	mean	present	Caring				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	brush not said to happen	gerund	Caring not said here	blood			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	check	gerund	Caring not said here	blood's feet			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
5	keep	gerund	Caring not said here	blood		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	remember	gerund	Caring not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	blood	a flight animal			tree rules
8	jump	can	a flight animal		a flapping bag	sideway property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bag=Trajectory
9	flap	gerund					vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	present	a flapping bag			always, wear 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:3.

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. 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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