Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 7

The four main paces, called gaits, are walk, trot, canter and gallop, from slowest to fastest, each with its own pattern of legs.

Who acts: four main paces, legs · What happens: call, be, pattern · To what, where: gaits, walk, slowest · 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 (four main paces, legs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 paces	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 paces	nummod
3	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paces	amod
4	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 walk	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 paces	acl
7	gaits	gait	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 paces	punct
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	cop
10	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trot	punct
12	trot	trot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 canter	punct
14	canter	canter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gallop	cc
16	gallop	gallop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fastest	punct
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 slowest	case
19	slowest	slow	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 walk	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 fastest	case
21	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 walk	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 each	punct
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 fastest	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 pattern	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pattern	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pattern	amod
27	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 each	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 legs	case
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pattern	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the four main paces not said here	gaits			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the four main paces	walk and trot and canter and gallop	slowest	to fastest	tree rules
3	pattern		legs				nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=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:7.

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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