Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish, sentence 1
Guinea pigs are herd animals that need a friend and fresh vegetables every day for vitamin C; adult Syrian hamsters are the opposite and must live alone, because they fight.
Who acts: Guinea pigs, herd animals, adult Syrian hamsters, hamsters · What happens: be, need, live, fight · To what, where: herd animals, friend, opposite
This is a sentence of the lesson «Guinea pigs, hamsters and fish» of the everyday 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, herd animals, adult Syrian hamsters, 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 | Guinea | guinea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pigs | compound |
| 2 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | cop |
| 4 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 animals | compound |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 need | nsubj |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 need | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 vegetables | cc |
| 11 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vegetables | amod |
| 12 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 friend | conj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 need | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 vitamin | case |
| 16 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 17 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 vitamin | appos |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 hamsters | punct |
| 19 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hamsters | amod |
| 20 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hamsters | amod |
| 21 | hamsters | hamster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 opposite | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 opposite | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 opposite | det |
| 24 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 animals | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 live | cc |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 live | aux |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 opposite | conj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 27 live | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fight | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 fight | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fight | nsubj |
| 32 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 live | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 animals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Guinea pigs | herd animals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | herd animals | a friend and fresh vegetables | day | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | adult Syrian hamsters | the opposite | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | must | adult Syrian hamsters not said here | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fight | present | hamsters = hamster | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:063-guinea-pigs-hamsters-and-fish.lesson:1.
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): 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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