Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 1
In the wild a hamster carries that food home to its burrow at night, so a pet hamster sleeps all day and runs on its wheel while the family sleeps.
Who acts: hamster, pet hamster, family · What happens: carry, sleep, run · To what, where: food, wild, wheel
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, pet hamster, family), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wild | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wild | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hamster | det |
| 5 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | nsubj |
| 6 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 8 food | det |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | obj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 carries | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 burrow | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 burrow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | burrow | burrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carries | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleeps | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 sleeps | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hamster | det |
| 18 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hamster | compound |
| 19 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeps | nsubj |
| 20 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carries | parataxis |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeps | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 runs | cc |
| 24 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleeps | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 wheel | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wheel | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 runs | obl |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 sleeps | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 family | det |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sleeps | nsubj |
| 31 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 runs | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | a hamster | that food | the wild | night | to hamster's burrow; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to burrow=Destination | |
| 2 | sleep | present | a pet hamster | day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | run | present | a pet hamster not said here | hamster's wheel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wheel=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sleep | present | the family | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice.lesson:1.
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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