Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 5
Hamsters are active at night; in the wild they run many kilometres looking for food, so a pet needs a big solid wheel that keeps its back straight.
Who acts: Hamsters, pouches, pet, big solid wheel · What happens: be, run, look, need, keep · To what, where: many kilometres, wild, big solid wheel, back
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 (Hamsters, pouches, pet, big solid wheel), 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 | Hamsters | hamster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 active | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 active | cop |
| 3 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 active | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wild | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wild | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 run | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 run | nsubj |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 active | parataxis |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kilometres | amod |
| 13 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 run | obj |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 run | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 food | case |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 needs | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 needs | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pet | det |
| 20 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 needs | nsubj |
| 21 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 active | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wheel | det |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wheel | amod |
| 24 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wheel | amod |
| 25 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 needs | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 keeps | nsubj |
| 27 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 wheel | acl:relcl |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 back | nmod:poss |
| 29 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keeps | obj |
| 30 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 keeps | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 active | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hamsters | night | active property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | present | pouches = pouch | many kilometres | the wild | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme in wild=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | pouches = pouch not said here | for food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | ||||
| 4 | need | present | a pet | a big solid wheel | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wheel=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | a big solid wheel | hamster's back | straight property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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:5.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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