Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 10

Gerbils drum their back feet to warn the colony of danger or when excited, and they are social, so they should live in pairs or groups.

Who acts: Gerbils · What happens: drum, warn, be, live · To what, where: back feet, colony, pairs

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 (Gerbils), 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	Gerbils	gerbil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drum	nsubj
2	drum	drum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feet	compound
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drum	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 warn	mark
7	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drum	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 colony	det
9	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warn	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 danger	case
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 colony	nmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 excited	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 excited	advmod
14	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 colony	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 social	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 social	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 social	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 social	cop
19	social	social	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 excited	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 live	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 live	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 live	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 live	aux
24	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 excited	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 pairs	case
26	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 live	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 groups	cc
28	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pairs	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drum	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	drum	present	Gerbils	Gerbils's back feet			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
2	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	Gerbils not said here	the colony of danger			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent colony=Recipient
3	is	present	Gerbils = gerbil			social property	tree rules
4	live	should	Gerbils = gerbil		pairs or groups		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location

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:10.

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): no change. 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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