Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 12
Pet rats are clever and friendly: they learn tricks and their names, and they chirp when tickled, a kind of laugh too high for people to hear without a machine.
Who acts: Pet rats, rats, people · What happens: be, learn, chirp, tickle, hear, name · To what, where: tricks
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 (Pet rats, rats, people), 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 | Pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rats | compound |
| 2 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clever | cop |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 friendly | cc |
| 6 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clever | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 learn | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 learn | nsubj |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clever | parataxis |
| 10 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 learn | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 names | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 names | nmod:poss |
| 13 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tricks | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chirp | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chirp | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 chirp | nsubj |
| 17 | chirp | chirp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clever | conj |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 tickled | mark |
| 19 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 chirp | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laugh | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 kind | det |
| 22 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chirp | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kind | dep |
| 24 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kind | nmod |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 high | advmod |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 laugh | amod |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 hear | mark |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hear | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 hear | mark |
| 30 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 high | advcl |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 machine | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 machine | det |
| 33 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hear | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Pet rats | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Pet rats not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | learn | present | rats = rat | tricks and rats's names | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic | ||||
| 4 | chirp | present | rats = rat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tickle | participle | rats = rat not said here | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | hear | to-infinitive | people | without a machine | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | name | rats = rat | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:12.
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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