Allergies, horses and farm animals, sentence 17

Horses can doze standing up because their legs lock, but they lie down for deep sleep.

Who acts: Horses, legs · What happens: doze, stand up, lock, lie down

This is a sentence of the lesson «Allergies, horses and farm animals» of the everyday 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, 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	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 doze	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 doze	aux
3	doze	doze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 doze	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 standing	compound:prt
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 lock	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lock	nsubj
9	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 doze	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lie	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 lie	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lie	nsubj
13	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 doze	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 lie	compound:prt
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 sleep	case
16	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sleep	amod
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lie	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 doze	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	doze	can	Horses		tree rules
2	stand up	gerund	Horses not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lock	present	Horses's legs		vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	lie down	present	Horses = horse	for deep sleep	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:everyday:067-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals.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): R5-strong ×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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