Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 11

Gerbils save water by making very dry droppings and very little urine (wee), so they drink little and their cages smell less than many others.

Who acts: Gerbils, cages · What happens: save, make, drink, smell · To what, where: water, dry droppings

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, cages), 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 save	nsubj
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 making	mark
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 save	advcl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 dry	advmod
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 droppings	amod
8	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 making	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 urine	cc
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 little	advmod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 urine	amod
12	urine	urine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 droppings	conj
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 wee	punct
14	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 urine	appos
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 wee	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drink	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 drink	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drink	nsubj
19	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 save	parataxis
20	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 drink	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 smell	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cages	nmod:poss
23	cages	cage	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smell	nsubj
24	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 drink	conj
25	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 smell	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 others	case
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 others	amod
28	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smell	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 save	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	save	present	Gerbils	water		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	make	gerund	Gerbils not said here	dry droppings and little urine		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product
3	drink	present	Gerbils = gerbil		little property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	smell	present	Gerbils's cages		than many others	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:11.

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): 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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