Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 4

A horse's hoof wall is like a thick fingernail with no feeling, so a farrier can nail on a shoe without hurting it; hooves keep growing and need trimming every few weeks.

Who acts: hoof wall, farrier, hooves · What happens: be, nail, hurt, keep, grow, need · To what, where: farrier

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 (hoof wall, farrier, hooves), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	hoof	hoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	compound
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fingernail	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fingernail	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 fingernail	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fingernail	det
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fingernail	amod
10	fingernail	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 feeling	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 feeling	det
13	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fingernail	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nail	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 nail	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 farrier	det
17	farrier	farrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nail	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 nail	aux
19	nail	nail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fingernail	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 shoe	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shoe	det
22	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nail	obl
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 hurting	mark
24	hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 nail	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hurting	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 growing	punct
27	hooves	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 keep	nsubj
28	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fingernail	parataxis
29	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 keep	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 need	cc
31	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 keep	conj
32	trimming	trim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 need	xcomp
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 weeks	det
34	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 weeks	amod
35	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 trimming	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fingernail	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a horse's hoof wall			like a thick fingernail; with no feeling	tree rules
2	nail	can	a farrier			on a shoe	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on shoe=Co-Patient
3	hurt	gerund	a farrier not said here	farrier			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
4	keep	present	hooves				tree rules
5	grow	gerund	hooves not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	need	present	hooves not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	trim not said to happen	gerund	hooves not said here		week		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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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