Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 15

Mice, rats, hamsters and gerbils all walk on four legs; hamsters have a very short tail, while mice, rats and gerbils have long ones.

Who acts: Mice, hamsters · What happens: walk, have · To what, where: four legs, short tail, long ones

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 (Mice, hamsters), 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	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walk	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rats	punct
3	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mice	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hamsters	punct
5	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mice	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gerbils	cc
7	gerbils	gerbil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mice	conj
8	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 walk	advmod
9	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 legs	case
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 legs	nummod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walk	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 hamsters	punct
14	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 walk	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tail	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 short	advmod
18	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tail	amod
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 have	mark
22	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rats	punct
24	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mice	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gerbils	cc
26	gerbils	gerbil	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rats	conj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	parataxis
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ones	amod
29	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 have	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 walk	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	walk	present	Mice and rats and hamsters and gerbils		four legs	all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
2	have	present	hamsters	a short tail			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	have	present	mice and rats and gerbils	long ones			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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:15.

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): 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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