Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth, sentence 16

Hamsters have stretchy pouches inside their cheeks reaching back to their shoulders, for carrying food home to store; in German, hamstern means to hoard.

Who acts: Hamsters, cheeks, hamstern · What happens: have, reach back, carry, mean, hoard · To what, where: stretchy pouches, cheeks, food home, store, German

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rodents: the biggest group of mammals and their ever-growing teeth» 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, cheeks, hamstern), 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	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stretchy	stretchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pouches	amod
4	pouches	pouch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 cheeks	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cheeks	nmod:poss
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pouches	nmod
8	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cheeks	acl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 reaching	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 shoulders	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoulders	nmod:poss
12	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reaching	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carrying	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 carrying	mark
15	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 have	advcl
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 home	compound
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carrying	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 store	case
19	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carrying	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 German	case
22	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 means	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
24	hamstern	hamstern	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 means	nsubj
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 hoard	mark
27	hoard	hoard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 means	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Hamsters	stretchy pouches	hamsters's cheeks		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pouch=Patient
2	reach back	gerund	hamsters's cheeks not said here			to hamsters's shoulders	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry	gerund	Hamsters not said here	food home	store		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to store=Destination
4	mean	present	hamstern		German		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hoard not said to happen	to-infinitive	hamstern not said here				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:316-rodents-the-biggest-group-of-mammals-and-their-ever-growing-teeth.lesson:16.

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): no change. 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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