Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 5
Guinea pigs learn sounds linked to food, such as a fridge door or a rustling bag, and call for it with a loud whistle called wheeking.
Who acts: Guinea pigs, loud whistle · What happens: learn, link, call · To what, where: sounds, wheeking · 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, loud whistle), 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 learn | nsubj |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learn | obj |
| 5 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sounds | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 linked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 door | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 door | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 12 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | compound |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 bag | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bag | det |
| 16 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bag | compound |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 call | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 call | cc |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 learn | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 whistle | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 whistle | det |
| 25 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 whistle | amod |
| 26 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 call | obl |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 whistle | acl |
| 28 | wheeking | wheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | Guinea pigs | sounds | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | ||||
| 2 | link | participle | sounds not said here | to food such a fridge door or a rustling bag | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to food=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | present | Guinea pigs not said here | for pig; with a loud whistle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a loud whistle not said here | wheeking | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c.lesson:5.
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): 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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