Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 4

A hamster's cheek pouches stretch back to its shoulders, and it can carry a big load of food in them, some say up to half its body weight, to store in its burrow.

Who acts: cheek pouches, hamster, some · What happens: stretch back, carry, say, store · To what, where: shoulders, big load, body weight, burrow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cheek pouches, hamster, some), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pouches	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 hamster	case
4	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pouches	compound
5	pouches	pouch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stretch	nsubj
6	stretch	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 stretch	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 shoulders	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoulders	nmod:poss
10	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stretch	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carry	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carry	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carry	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 carry	aux
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stretch	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 load	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 load	amod
18	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carry	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 food	case
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 load	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carry	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 say	nsubj
25	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stretch	parataxis
26	up	up	ADV	_	28 half	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	31 weight	case
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	31 weight	det:predet
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 weight	nmod:poss
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 weight	compound
31	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 store	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 store	mark
34	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 say	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 burrow	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 burrow	nmod:poss
37	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 store	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stretch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch back	present	a hamster's cheek pouches		hamster's shoulders		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Location
2	carry	can	hamster	a big load of food		in pouches = pouch	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent load=Value in they=Location
3	say speech: assert	present	some	hamster's body weight			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weight=Topic
4	store	to-infinitive	some not said here		hamster's burrow		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=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:4.

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 ×2, 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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