Horses, zebras and donkeys, sentence 17

Horses roll to scratch itches and coat themselves in dust, but a horse that rolls a lot and seems in pain may have colic, so owners call a vet.

Who acts: Horses, horse, owners · What happens: roll, scratch, coat, seem, have, call · To what, where: itches, lot, colic, vet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Horses, zebras and donkeys» 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, horse, owners), 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	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roll	nsubj
2	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 scratch	mark
4	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 roll	advcl
5	itches	itch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scratch	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 coat	cc
7	coat	coat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scratch	conj
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 coat	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 dust	case
10	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 rolls	nsubj
16	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 horse	acl:relcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lot	det
18	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rolls	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seems	cc
20	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rolls	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 pain	case
22	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seems	obl
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 roll	conj
25	colic	colic	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 call	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 call	advmod
28	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 call	nsubj
29	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 roll	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 vet	det
31	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 call	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 roll	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roll	present	Horses			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scratch	to-infinitive	Horses not said here	itches		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itch=Theme
3	coat	infinitive	Horses not said here	itches = itch	in dust	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination in dust=Theme
4	roll	present	a horse	a lot		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Agent
5	seem	present	a horse not said here		in pain	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pain=Attribute
6	have	may	a horse	colic		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colic=Patient
7	call	present	owners	a vet		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent vet=Recipient

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:025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.lesson:17.

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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