Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 10
Guinea pigs talk with wheeks, purrs, rumbles and chutters; a deep rumble while strutting shows one is trying to be in charge, while a soft purr during stroking usually means it is content.
Who acts: Guinea pigs, deep rumble, one, soft purr, pig · What happens: talk, strut, show, try, be, stroke · To what, where: charge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» 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 (Guinea pigs, deep rumble, one, soft purr), 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 | Guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pigs | compound |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talk | nsubj |
| 3 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 wheeks | case |
| 5 | wheeks | wheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talk | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 purrs | punct |
| 7 | purrs | purr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wheeks | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rumbles | punct |
| 9 | rumbles | rumble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wheeks | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chutters | cc |
| 11 | chutters | chutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wheeks | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 rumble | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rumble | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rumble | amod |
| 15 | rumble | rumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shows | nsubj |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 strutting | mark |
| 17 | strutting | strut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 rumble | advcl |
| 18 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 talk | parataxis |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 trying | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 trying | aux |
| 21 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 shows | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 charge | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 charge | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 charge | case |
| 25 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trying | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 purr | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 means | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 purr | det |
| 29 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 purr | amod |
| 30 | purr | purr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 means | nsubj |
| 31 | during | during | ADP | _ | 32 stroking | case |
| 32 | stroking | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 purr | acl |
| 33 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 34 means | advmod |
| 34 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 talk | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 content | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 content | cop |
| 37 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 means | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Guinea pigs | with wheeks and purrs and rumbles and chutters | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wheek=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | strut | gerund | a deep rumble not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | present | a deep rumble | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | try | present · progressive | one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | one not said here | charge | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stroke | gerund | a soft purr not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | mean | present | a soft purr | usually property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is | present | pig | content property | tree rules |
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:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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