Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 0

A hamster can stuff its cheeks so full of seeds that its head looks twice as wide, because stretchy pouches run all the way back to its shoulders, like two shopping bags.

Who acts: hamster, head, stretchy pouches · What happens: stuff, look, run · To what, where: cheeks, way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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 (hamster, head, stretchy pouches), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuff	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stuff	aux
4	stuff	stuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cheeks	nmod:poss
6	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuff	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuff	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 seeds	case
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 looks	mark
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 looks	nsubj
14	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 full	ccomp
15	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 looks	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 wide	advmod
17	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looks	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 run	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 run	mark
20	stretchy	stretchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pouches	amod
21	pouches	pouch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 run	nsubj
22	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stuff	advcl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 way	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 run	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	22 run	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 shoulders	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoulders	nmod:poss
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 back	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bags	punct
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 bags	case
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 bags	nummod
33	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bags	compound
34	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 run	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stuff	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stuff	can	a hamster	hamster's cheeks	full property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme
2	look	present	hamster's head		twice, wide property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	run	present	stretchy pouches	all way	like two shopping bags	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:0.

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 ×3, 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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