Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 11
A guinea pig is shy because it is a prey animal; it hides when frightened, so it is best to sit on the floor and let it come to you.
Who acts: guinea pig, pig · What happens: be, hide, frighten, sit, let, come · To what, where: prey animal, floor, pig, you
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 pig, pig), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pig | det |
| 2 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pig | compound |
| 3 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shy | cop |
| 5 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 animal | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 animal | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 animal | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 animal | det |
| 10 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 animal | compound |
| 11 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shy | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 hides | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hides | nsubj |
| 14 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shy | parataxis |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 frightened | advmod |
| 16 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hides | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 best | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 best | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 best | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 best | cop |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 shy | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sit | mark |
| 23 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 best | csubj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 floor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 floor | det |
| 26 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sit | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 let | cc |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sit | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 let | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 come | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a guinea pig | shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | pig | a prey animal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hide | present | pig | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | frighten | participle | pig not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | a guinea pig not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sit | to-infinitive | the floor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location | |||||
| 7 | let | infinitive | pig | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | come | infinitive | pig not said here | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location |
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:11.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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