Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C, sentence 9

Guinea pigs live in groups and get lonely alone, so they should be kept at least in pairs, and in Switzerland this is even the law.

Who acts: Guinea pigs, this · What happens: live, get, keep, be · To what, where: groups, pairs, law, Switzerland

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, this), 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 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 groups	case
5	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 get	cc
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	conj
8	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kept	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 kept	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	nsubj:pass
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 kept	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 kept	aux:pass
15	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 live	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 least	fixed
17	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 kept	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 pairs	case
19	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 kept	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 law	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 law	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Switzerland	case
23	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 law	obl
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 law	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 law	cop
26	even	even	ADV	_	28 law	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 law	det
28	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Guinea pigs		groups		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location
2	get	present	Guinea pigs not said here			alone, lonely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	keep	should · passive		groups = group	pairs	least property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pair=Location
4	is a	present	this	the law	Switzerland		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:9.

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 ×2, 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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