Hooves, riding and caring for a horse, plus donkeys and mules, sentence 9

Grooming cleans the coat and lets the rider check for cuts; dirt left under the saddle can rub sores, and horses groom each other by nibbling at the withers, the bony top of the shoulders.

Who acts: Grooming, rider, dirt, horses · What happens: clean, let, check, leave, rub, groom · To what, where: coat, dirt, saddle, sores, each

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 (Grooming, rider, dirt, horses), 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	Grooming	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleans	nsubj
2	cleans	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coat	det
4	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cleans	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lets	cc
6	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 cleans	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rider	det
8	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 check	nsubj
9	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lets	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 cuts	case
11	cuts	cut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 check	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 rub	punct
13	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rub	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 dirt	acl
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 saddle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 saddle	det
17	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obl
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 rub	aux
19	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cleans	parataxis
20	sores	sore	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rub	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 groom	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 groom	cc
23	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 groom	nsubj
24	groom	groom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rub	conj
25	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	24 groom	obj
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 nibbling	mark
28	nibbling	nibble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 groom	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 withers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 withers	det
31	withers	wither	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 nibbling	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 withers	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 top	det
34	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 top	amod
35	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 withers	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 shoulders	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shoulders	det
38	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 top	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cleans	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clean	present	Grooming	the coat			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
2	let	present	Grooming not said here				tree rules
3	check	infinitive	the rider			for cuts	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for cut=Attribute
4	leave	participle		dirt not said here	the saddle		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent under saddle=Location
5	rub	can	dirt	sores			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sore=Theme
6	groom	present	horses	each			vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
7	nibble	gerund	horses not said here			at the withers	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wither=Patient

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:9.

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): R1-cc-next ×2. 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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