The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 7
Guinea pigs come from the Andes mountains of South America; they are prey animals and feel safest held low, close and gently, and they are neither pigs nor from Guinea; nobody is sure how they got the name.
Who acts: Guinea pigs, pigs, nobody · What happens: come, be, feel, hold, get · To what, where: Andes mountains, prey animals, low, pigs, name
This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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 (Guinea pigs, pigs, nobody), 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 | Guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pigs | compound |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 6 | Andes | Andes | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 mountains | compound |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 America | case |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 America | compound |
| 10 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mountains | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 animals | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 animals | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 animals | cop |
| 14 | prey | prey | NOUN | _ | 15 animals | compound |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 feel | cc |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 animals | conj |
| 18 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 feel | xcomp |
| 19 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 feel | advcl |
| 20 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 held | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 close | punct |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 low | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gently | cc |
| 24 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 20 low | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pigs | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pigs | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pigs | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 pigs | cop |
| 29 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 pigs | cc:preconj |
| 30 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 animals | conj |
| 31 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 Guinea | cc |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 Guinea | case |
| 33 | Guinea | Guinea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 pigs | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 sure | punct |
| 35 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 37 sure | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 sure | cop |
| 37 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | parataxis |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 got | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 got | nsubj |
| 40 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 sure | ccomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 name | det |
| 42 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 got | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Guinea pigs | the Andes mountains of South America | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | pigs = pig | prey animals and pigs nor Guinea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | pigs = pig not said here | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hold | participle | pigs = pig not said here | low | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent low=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | pigs = pig | pigs nor Guinea | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | nobody | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get | past | pigs = pig | the name | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
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:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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