Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 8
Hay is a guinea pig's main food: it gives fibre and wears down teeth that never stop growing; guinea pigs also eat some of their own soft droppings, which is normal.
Who acts: Hay, pig, teeth, guinea pigs, own soft droppings · What happens: be, give, wear down, not stop, grow, eat · To what, where: main food, fibre, teeth, some
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 (Hay, pig, teeth, guinea pigs), 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 | Hay | Hay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 food | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 food | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pig | det |
| 4 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pig | compound |
| 5 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 pig | case |
| 7 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 gives | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gives | nsubj |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 food | parataxis |
| 12 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wears | cc |
| 14 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gives | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 wears | compound:prt |
| 16 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wears | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 stop | nsubj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 stop | advmod |
| 19 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 20 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stop | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 pigs | punct |
| 22 | guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pigs | compound |
| 23 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 eat | nsubj |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 eat | advmod |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 food | parataxis |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 droppings | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 droppings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 droppings | amod |
| 30 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 droppings | amod |
| 31 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 some | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 normal | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 normal | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 normal | cop |
| 35 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 droppings | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 food | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hay | a guinea pig's main food | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | present | pig | fibre | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear down | present | pig not said here | teeth | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tooth=Source | ||||
| 4 | not stop | present | teeth | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | grow | gerund | teeth not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | eat | present | guinea pigs | some | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | present | hay's own soft droppings | normal 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:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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