Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 7

Like people, guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C, so they need it every day from foods such as peppers and leafy greens, or they get scurvy with sore joints and bleeding gums.

Who acts: guinea pigs, people · What happens: not make, need, get · To what, where: own vitamin C, pig, foods, scurvy

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, 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	Like	like	ADP	_	2 people	case
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 people	punct
4	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pigs	compound
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 make	advmod
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 C	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 C	amod
11	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 C	compound
12	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 need	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 need	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 need	nsubj
16	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 make	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 need	obj
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 need	obl:unmarked
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 foods	case
21	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 need	obl
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	24 peppers	case
23	as	as	ADP	_	22 such	fixed
24	peppers	pepper	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 foods	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 greens	cc
26	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 greens	amod
27	greens	green	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 peppers	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
31	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 need	conj
32	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 joints	case
34	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 joints	amod
35	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 get	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gums	cc
37	bleeding	bleed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 gums	amod
38	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 joints	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	guinea pigs	people's own vitamin C			like people	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Product
2	need	present	people	pig	foods such peppers and leafy greens	day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	get	present	people	scurvy			with sore joints and bleeding gums	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus

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:7.

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 ×2, 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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