Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 15
People in the Andes tamed guinea pigs thousands of years ago and kept them as farm animals; they reached Europe on ships about five hundred years ago.
Who acts: People · What happens: tame, keep, reach · To what, where: guinea pigs, people, Europe, ships
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tamed | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Andes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Andes | det |
| 4 | Andes | andes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 People | nmod |
| 5 | tamed | tame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pigs | compound |
| 7 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tamed | obj |
| 8 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ago | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thousands | nmod |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 tamed | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tamed | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kept | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 animals | case |
| 16 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 animals | compound |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kept | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tamed | parataxis |
| 21 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ships | case |
| 23 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reached | obl |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 hundred | advmod |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hundred | compound |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 years | nummod |
| 27 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 20 reached | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tamed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tame | past | People in the Andes | guinea pigs | ago property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | |||
| 2 | keep | past | People in the Andes not said here | people | as farm animals | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | reach | past | people | Europe | ships | ago property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent europe=Theme |
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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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