Horses, zebras and donkeys, sentence 7

Horses' eyes are on the sides of the head and see almost all round, with small blind spots right behind and right in front of the nose, so a horse startled from behind may kick.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: be, see, startle, kick · To what, where: sides, horse

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 (eyes), 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	3 eyes	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Horses	case
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sides	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sides	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 sides	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sides	det
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sides	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sides	conj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 round	advmod
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 round	det
15	round	round	ADV	_	12 see	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spots	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 spots	case
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spots	amod
19	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spots	amod
20	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	obl
21	right	right	ADV	_	22 behind	advmod
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 right	case
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 right	cc
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 see	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 front	case
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 right	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 nose	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nose	det
29	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 front	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 horse	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 horse	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 horse	det
33	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 right	obl
34	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 horse	acl
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 behind	case
36	behind	behind	ADV	_	38 kick	advmod
37	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 kick	aux
38	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 startled	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sides	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Horses's eyes		the sides	of the head	tree rules
2	see	present	Horses's eyes not said here			with small blind spots; round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	startle	participle		a horse not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	kick	may				behind property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:025-horses-zebras-and-donkeys.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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