Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice, sentence 7

Syrian hamsters live alone in the wild and attack other hamsters, so they must be kept one per cage, while some dwarf hamsters can live in pairs.

Who acts: Syrian hamsters, dwarf hamsters · What happens: live, attack, keep · To what, where: wild, other hamsters, pouches, pairs

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 (Syrian hamsters, dwarf 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	Syrian	Syrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hamsters	amod
2	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wild	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wild	det
7	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 attack	cc
9	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	conj
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hamsters	amod
11	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 attack	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 kept	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 kept	nsubj:pass
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 kept	aux:pass
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 live	parataxis
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 kept	obj
19	per	per	ADP	_	20 cage	case
20	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 live	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 live	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 hamsters	det
24	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hamsters	amod
25	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 live	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 live	aux
27	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 kept	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 pairs	case
29	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 live	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Syrian hamsters		the wild	alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location
2	attack	present	Syrian hamsters not said here	other hamsters			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Patient
3	keep	must · passive		pouches = pouch			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme one=Attribute
4	live	can	some dwarf hamsters		pairs		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=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:7.

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, 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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